Algol /ˈælɡɒl/, designated Beta Persei (β Persei, abbreviated Beta Per, β Per), known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright multiple star in the...
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ALGOL (/ˈælɡɒl, -ɡɔːl/; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL...
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ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had...
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Exponent Symbol U+23E8 TTF). ALGOL 68 (short for Algorithmic Language 1968) is an imperative programming language member of the ALGOL family that was conceived...
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Burroughs Algol Elliott ALGOL Dartmouth ALGOL 30 ALGOL W Simula DG/L S-algol ALGOL X ALGOL Y ALGOL 68: ALGOL 68-R ALGOL 68RS ALGOL 68C FLACC ALGOL 68-RT ALGAMS...
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ALGOL 58, originally named IAL, is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by...
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ALGOL W is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively...
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features that were rejected for ALGOL 68 and ALGOL X. ALGOL Y was intended to be a "radical reconstruction" of ALGOL. One such feature was the possibility...
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Elliott ALGOL is a compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60, for the Elliott 803 computer made by Elliott Brothers in the United Kingdom. It was...
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ALGOL 68C is an imperative computer programming language, a dialect of ALGOL 68, that was developed by Stephen R. Bourne and Michael Guy to program the...
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of the United States Navy have been named Algol, after a fixed star in the constellation Perseus. USS Algol (AKA-54) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo...
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ALGOL 68S is a programming language designed as a subset of ALGOL 68, to allow compiling via a one-pass compiler. It was mostly for numerical analysis...
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the ALGOL 60 language. Wirth was involved in the process to improve the language as part of the ALGOL X efforts and proposed a version named ALGOL W. This...
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ALGOL N (N for Nippon – Japan in Japanese) is the name of a successor programming language to ALGOL 60, designed in Japan with the goal of being as simple...
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development of IBM's earlier Autocode systems. The ALGOL family, with ALGOL 58 defined in 1958 and ALGOL 60 defined in 1960 by committees of European and...
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often incorporate major ideas from multiple sources. ALGOL (also under Fortran) Atlas Autocode ALGOL 58 (IAL, International Algorithmic Language) MAD and...
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Algol variables or Algol-type binaries are a class of eclipsing binary stars that are similar to the prototype member of this class, β Persei (Beta Persei...
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Burroughs Large Systems (section ALGOL)
in the family was the B5000 in 1961, which was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, using single-pass compilers. The B5000 evolved...
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internal components (e.g. expressions). Many programming languages (e.g. Ada, Algol 60, C, Java, Pascal) make a distinction between statements and definitions/declarations...
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and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. Between the years 1960 and 1993 he was a member of the editorial...
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new programming language IAL, known today as ALGOL 58, in 1959. This notation was formalized in the ALGOL 60 report, where Peter Naur named it Backus normal...
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Algol: The Magazine About Science Fiction was published from 1963 to 1984 by Andrew Porter. The headquarters was in New York City. The name was changed...
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ActionScript Ada (multi-purpose language) ALGOL 58 JOVIAL NELIAC ALGOL 60 (influential design) SMALL a Machine ALGOL ALGOL 68 Ballerina→ bytecode runtime BASIC...
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irregular form of the verb think. It refers to the original use of thunks in ALGOL 60 compilers, which required special analysis (thought) to determine what...
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The Interactive ALGOL 68 compiler for ALGOL 68 was made available by Peter Craven of Algol Applications from 1984. Then in 1994 from OCCL (Oxford and Cambridge...
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S-algol (St Andrews Algol): vii is a computer programming language derivative of ALGOL 60 developed at the University of St Andrews in 1979 by Ron Morrison...
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USS Algol (AKA-54) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship. She was the first ship of the United States Navy by this name, after Algol, a fixed star...
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ALGOL 68-R was the first implementation of the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. In December 1968, the report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 was published...
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around 1963 at the University of Manchester. A variant of the language ALGOL, it was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris for the Atlas computer...
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(despite the name). Notable standardized programming languages include ALGOL, C, C++, JavaScript (under the name ECMAScript), Smalltalk, Prolog, Common...
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