Category Archives: ALGOL

Algol 68: Informal Introduction and more

Posted on 9/23/2012 by Paul McJones

Several years ago I began an archival collection for the Algol family of programming languages: Algol 58 (originally known as the International Algorithmic Language), Algol 60, and Algol 68. I began looking for implementations of Algol 58 and Algol 60. … Continue reading →

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Edgar Daylight on Dijkstra

Posted on 4/25/2011 by Paul McJones

The latest addition to the “Papers on the history of ALGOL” section of the History of ALGOL web site is this paper about Dijkstra’s involvement in proposing and implementing the recursive procedure as an ALGOL 60 language construct: Edgar G. … Continue reading →

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Gordon Bell: “Out of a Closet: The Early Years of The Computer [History] Museum”

Posted on 4/3/2011 by Paul McJones

The institution now known as the Computer History Museum began in 1975 as a closet-sized exhibit in a Digital Equipment Corporation building, grew into The Computer Museum located on Boston’s Museum Wharf, and finally metamorphosed into its current form and … Continue reading →

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SDC: Q-32 Lisp, Lisp 2, and three more; Lisp 1.5 Primer

Posted on 8/9/2010 by Paul McJones

Lisp’s birth and infancy was at MIT, but it began spreading to other places when John McCarthy went to Stanford and other project members graduated and moved on. At about this time, a project began to develop a new language, … Continue reading →

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Whetstone ALGOL

Posted on 5/16/2010 by Paul McJones

Part of my motivation for starting on an ALGOL project was that Brian Randell recently obtained permission from the copyright holder to post an online copy of ALGOL 60 Implementation at CHM. This book, which he and Lawford Russell published … Continue reading →

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ALGOL

Posted on 5/16/2010 by Paul McJones

I recently created an ALGOL section at the Computer History Museum‘s Software Preservation Group web site, covering the language standardization efforts — for ALGOL 58 (also known as the International Algebraic Language), ALGOL 60, and ALGOL 68 — and also … Continue reading →

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