• 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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    gave detailed attention to formal language definition and through the Algol 60 Report introduced Backus–Naur form, a principal formal grammar notation...
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  • programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According to John Backus The Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference had two principal...
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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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  • new programming language IAL, known today as ALGOL 58 (1959). His notation was first used in the ALGOL 60 report. BNF is a notation for Chomsky's context-free...
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  • languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. It attempted to find a "short-term solution to existing difficulties". ALGOL N and ALGOL W were two other ALGOL versions...
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  • 'Number is: ', number end program ALGOL 60 was criticized for having no standard file access.[citation needed] ALGOL 68's input and output facilities were...
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  • U+23E8 TTF). ALGOL 68 (short for Algorithmic Language 1968) is an imperative programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming...
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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 American...
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  • ABC ALGOL is an extension of the programming language ALGOL 60 with arbitrary data structures and user-defined operators, intended for computer algebra...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • foundations, assemblers, automatable command line interfaces (shells), etc. cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline Notes: Complete except for...
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    committee that designed ALGOL 60. In August 1959 he proposed the use of recursion and conditional expressions, which became part of ALGOL. He then became involved...
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    and in 1960 developed the first compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60 in conjunction with colleague Jaap A. Zonneveld. In 1962 he moved to Eindhoven...
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  • and generalization of ALGOL 60. The designers' goals were to create a language that is: Simpler, yet more flexible, than ALGOL 60 Useful and processed...
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  • Jaap A. Zonneveld (category ALGOL 60)
    2016) was a Dutch programmer who, with Edsger W. Dijkstra, wrote the first Algol 60 compiler. Zonneveld's interest in the practical application of mathematics...
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  • Burroughs system as a cross compiler), which had the general syntax of ALGOL 60 but whose statements directly manipulated CPU registers and memory. Other...
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  • complete set of structured programming constructs commonly found in the ALGOL 60 group of computer languages. Alongside Acorn's version of BBC BASIC on...
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    and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. He became the Professor of Computing Science at the Queen's University...
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    European computer scientists, of "a new language for algorithms"; the ALGOL 60 Report (the "ALGOrithmic Language"). This report consolidated many ideas...
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  • benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in ALGOL 60 in 1972 at the Technical Support Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry...
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  • ActionScript Ada (multi-purpose language) ALGOL 58 JOVIAL NELIAC ALGOL 60 (influential design) SMALL a Machine ALGOL Ballerina→ bytecode runtime BASIC (including...
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  • Jensen's device (category Articles with example ALGOL 60 code)
    Regnecentralen. They worked on the GIER ALGOL compiler, one of the earliest correct implementations of ALGOL 60. ALGOL 60 used call by name. During his Turing...
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    which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for...
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    and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. Wada, Eiiti; Yonezawa, Akinori (November 1996), "Professor Nobuo...
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  • more complex and not as elegant as ALGOL 60. CPL was a big language for its time. CPL attempted to go beyond ALGOL to include industrial process control...
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    Simula (category ALGOL 60 dialect)
    Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Syntactically, it is an approximate superset of ALGOL 60,: 1.3.1  and was also influenced by the design of Simscript. Simula 67...
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