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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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  • 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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    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 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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  • contemporaries (and competitors) such as C, S-algol and Pascal. In 1970, ALGOL 68-R became the first working compiler for ALGOL 68. In the 1973 revision, certain...
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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 It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • expressions: if a then (if b then s) else s2 if a then (if b then s else s2) The dangling else problem dates to ALGOL 60, and has been resolved in various...
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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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  • 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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    SS Algol (T-AKR 287) is an Algol-class vehicle cargo ship that is currently maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the Military...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Simula: an ALGOL based simulation language. Oslo: Norwegian Computing Center. Dahl, Ole-Johan; Nygaard, Kristen (1966). "Simula: an ALGOL-based simulation...
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  • John Cole, Ronald Morrison (1982) An introduction to programming with S-algol: "[Abstraction] when applied to language design is to define all the semantically...
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    which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68, he got frustrated by the discussions in the standards groups and...
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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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  • Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler (NELIAC) is a dialect and compiler implementation of the programming language ALGOL 58, developed by the Navy...
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    programming languages ALGOL 58, and its successor ALGOL 60, important predecessors to all modern imperative programming languages. For ALGOL 58, Bauer was with...
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  • PS-algol is an orthogonally persistent programming language. PS-algol was an extension of the language S-algol implemented by the University of St Andrews...
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