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ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages
An Oracle engineer has been hacking on the front-end for this "generally poorly understood and often vilified programming language." The GCC Steering Committee has decided not to merge the ALGOL 68 code upstream but will allow it to be developed in a branch for those interested. In this thread it wasn't communicated on the reasoning for the steering committee's rejection or if they will revisit the decision in the future.
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