Re: [PATCH,WIP] Support for the Algol 68 language

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hello.

> Hi,
>
>> This patch adds support for the Algol 68 programming language to
>> Autoconf.  It is based on the Algol 68 GCC front-end
> [..]
>> This WIP seems to work well for me, but almost certainly I am doing
>> something wrong, so comments are welcome.
>
> As I know nothing about Algol 68 or its implementations, my only real 
> question is: will this work with any other Algol 68 compilers?

The only other working Algol 68 compiler is algol68toc, which is a
translator to C.  It is not maintained, and it implements a sub language
of Algol 68.

> Note that the GNU coding standards say that if the program variable
> is named GA68, then the corresponding -FLAGS variable should be named
> GA68FLAGS (with CFLAGS, LFLAGS and YFLAGS being historical exceptions
> to this rule).

Oh, I didn't realize that.

> Probably A68 and A68FLAGS make the most sense though (as if "G" is
> for "GNU" we probably shouldn't be baking that into portable configure
> scripts today).

Sure, I will change it to A68.
Thanks.