100hellos/algol repository overview

⁠Hello World! From algol.

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Source on GitHub⁠ (100hellos/algol)

⁠Trying it

docker run --rm --platform="linux/amd64" 100hellos/algol:latest

⁠Modifying it

Read the repo README⁠, or fork the project⁠ and customize it.

For an interactive shell:

docker run --rm --platform="linux/amd64" --entrypoint="" -it 100hellos/algol:latest zsh

⁠ALGOL

Algorigthmic Language (ALGOL) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid-1950s. It introduced code blocks and the begin...end pairs for delimiting them.

This is container has an implementation of ALGOL 60 from JvanKatwijk⁠ that converts Algol 60 to C, and then builds the C program. Your milage may vary with this implementation, but we're lucky it exists at all!