FLACC is an implementation of the

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. Chris Thomson and Colin Broughton founded ''Chion Corporation'' which developed and marketed FLACC (''Full Language

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Checkout Compiler''). This compiler and run-time system conformed exactly to the Revised Report, ran on IBM 370 and compatible mainframes, and included debugging features derived from WATFIV. It was released in 1977. Chris was a student of Barry J. Mailloux. Barry studied at

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from 1966 under

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. Barry's work on the Algol 68 language established the

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as a center for Algol 68-related activity. According to Thomson decade later: : ''You know, we only ever got 22 copies installed, and less than 5 of those in North America. Even though it ran on 370's under MVS,

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and MTS, and was cheap and reliable. Talk about a marketing disaster.''

References

External links

Barry J. Mailloux @ Everything.com
* Scanned documentation at softwarepreservation.org
Christopher Mark Thomson. The Run-Time structure of an ALGOL 68 Student Checkout Compiler. Master's thesis, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 1976.

FLACC User Guide. FLACC Version 1.6, November 1981, Chion Corporation, 1981.
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