FLACC


FLACC is an implementation of the ALGOL 68 programming language.
Chris Thomson and Colin Broughton founded Chion Corporation which developed and marketed FLACC. 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 Amsterdam's Mathematisch Centrum from 1966 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden. Barry's work on the Algol 68 language established the University of Alberta as a center for Algol 68-related activity.
According to Thomson decade later: