a mode for algol 68

[Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>]

(please Cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list)

Two years ago I started hacking on Jose E. Marchesi' algol-mode (that
I've renamed a68-mode) while I was playing with the algol68g compiler.
Truth to be told, I think I've spent more time hacking on the emacs mode
that with the language itself, but anyway...

I haven't touched the mode any more for the last two years, and I doubt
I'll hack again on it in the future.  Although it's almost finished,
there remains issues with the indentation and font-locking in some
cases.

My hope would be that some friendly hacker would take interest in
maintaining it and maybe even distribute it in ELPA / NonGNU Elpa.

On the copyright side, I don't know Jose E. Marchesi and I copied
initial the code from some random github repository.  Not great, I know,
but it was the only major mode for algol68.  However, I *do* have an FSF
copyright assignment and I ended up rewriting almost all of the code in
the end.  I paied attention to do the 'initial import' with the original
code as-is and do my changes on top.  It's 53 commits in total.

The code is available here for browsing here:
<https://git.omarpolo.com/?action=summary&path=a68-mode.git>
and can be cloned with git via anonymous SSH via
<ssh://anon@omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git> or with HTTPS via
<https://git.omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git>.


Thanks,

Omar Polo