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Most other vendors could only dream of implementing an ALGOL compiler and most in the industry wrote ALGOL off as being unimplementable (the language wars started early).
However, a bright young student had previously implemented ALGOL-58 on an earlier Burroughs machine during the three months of his summer break. (The name of that student – Donald Knuth.)