• 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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    samples are ALGOL 68 versions of the above ALGOL 60 code samples. ALGOL 68 implementations used ALGOL 60's approaches to stropping. In ALGOL 68's case tokens...
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  • ALGOL but the ALGOL 68 committee decided on a design that was more complex and advanced rather than a cleaned simplified ALGOL 60. The official ALGOL...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • the goal of being as simple as ALGOL 60 but as powerful as ALGOL 68. The language was proposed by Nobuo Yoneda. ALGOL N tried to use extensibility to...
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  • formalism invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden for the purpose of defining the ALGOL 68 programming language. The resulting specification remains its most notable...
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • '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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  • 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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  • Braille[clarification needed]. ALGOL 68 went on to become the GOST/ГОСТ-27974-88 standard in the Soviet Union. GOST 27974-88 Programming language ALGOL 68 – Язык программирования...
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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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  • nonlocal GOTO intuitive declaration syntax due to its origin from C. ALGOL 68 doesn't have: public/private struct member access protection, overloaded...
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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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  • foundations, assemblers, automatable command line interfaces (shells), etc. cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline Notes: Complete except for...
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  • to FORTRAN IV) and ALGOL 60, did not support record types; but later versions of those languages, such as FORTRAN 77 and ALGOL 68 did add them. The original...
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    For loop (category Articles with example ALGOL 68 code)
    languages to introduce a for-loop. The term in English dates to ALGOL 58 and was popularized in ALGOL 60. It is the direct translation of the earlier German für...
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  • integer opening_time; opening_time := if day = Sunday then 12 else 9; Both ALGOL 68's choice clauses (if and the case clauses) provide the coder with a choice...
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  • tests. 1974 – Comparative Notes on Algol 68 and PL/I – S. H. Valentine – November 1974 1976 – Evaluation of ALGOL 68, JOVIAL J3B, Pascal, Simula 67, and...
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    integer, and thus be more readily accessed for purposes of comparison etc. ALGOL 68 has tagged unions, and uses a case clause to distinguish and extract the...
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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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    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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    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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  • important in ALGOL 68, where multiple methods of stropping, known as "stropping regimes", are used; the original matched apostrophes from ALGOL 60 was not...
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    Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. Around 1959, he invented so-called "garbage collection" methods...
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    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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