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+Advent of Code 2021, 1968 style
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+Can you use a historical programming language to solve modern programming puzzles?
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+Let's use the most modern, most ambitious, most elegant, most controversial,
+most hated, and most significant flop of a language ever: ALGOL 68.
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+This requires Algol68Genie, by Marcel van der Veer:
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+https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html
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+Some recent background material:
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+https://accu.org/journals/overload/26/148/james_2586/
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+https://opensource.com/article/20/6/algol68