• 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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    ALGOL (/ˈælɡɒl, -ɡɔːl/; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL...
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  • programming language based on ALGOL 60 concepts. Niklaus Wirth based his own ALGOL W on ALGOL 60 before moving to develop Pascal. Algol-W was intended to be the...
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    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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  • 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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  • ALGOL 58, originally named IAL, is one of the family of ALGOL computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL...
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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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  • 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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    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...
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  • Alef Algebraic Logic Functional programming language (ALF) ALGOL 58 ALGOL 60 ALGOL 68 ALGOL W Alice ML Alma-0 AmbientTalk Amiga E AMPL Analitik AngelScript...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
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  • the same code on different platforms. Examples of such languages include ALGOL and Pascal. This generic quality typically comes at the cost of denying...
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    including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon." Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1966), Pascal...
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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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    comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely...
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  • SMALL (category Algol programming language family)
    Small Machine Algol Like Language (SMALL), is a computer programming language developed by Nevil Brownlee of the University of Auckland. The aim of the...
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  • under Ruby, Objective-C, and Haskell) Boo Cobra (syntax and features) ALGOL 68 ALGOL W Pascal Ada SPARK PL/SQL Turbo Pascal Object Pascal (Delphi) Free Pascal...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Tony Hoare traced the invention of the null pointer to his design of the ALGOL W language and called it a "mistake": I call it my billion-dollar mistake...
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  • Hoare stated that he invented the null reference in 1965 as part of the ALGOL W language. In that 2009 reference Hoare describes his invention as a "billion-dollar...
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    language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. McCarthy spent...
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    Niklaus Wirth and the latest member of the Wirthian family of ALGOL-like languages (Euler, ALGOL W, Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2). Oberon was the result of...
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    Cambridge. Subsequently, he worked on an ALGOL 68 compiler at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (see ALGOL 68C). He also worked on CAMAL, a system...
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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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