Battleships in ALGOL 60 on Elliott 803 emulator

[@luisluiscunha]

Thank you for the demonstration. This is of great historical and technical value.

[@robinbaker9708]

Can I be a pedant and say Eliot 803 ALGOL differed from 'real ' ALGOL 60 in some ways, the illustration shows the use of ' as the end of line delimiter rather then ; just one thing I remember from working on an 803 in Bletchley Park 'D' block back in the 1970's. I wonder what happened to that one ?

[@PeterOGB]

From "Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60" : "As with the preliminary ALGOL report, three different levels of language are recognized, namely a Reference Language, a Publication Language and several Hardware Representation." So 803 ALGOL **IS** real ALGOL 60 as it is one of the "several Hardware Representations". As to there being an 803 in BP D block, do you have any more details because that is the first time I've heard of there being one installed there. And if you are going to be a pedant, you really ought to check that you've spelt Elliott correctly !