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...

ALGOL (/ˈælɡɒl, -ɡɔːl/; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL...

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...

minority report on 23 December 1968. ALGOL 60 ALGOL Y ALGOL N ALGOL 68C C (programming language) C++ Comparison of ALGOL 68 and C++ Bourne shell Bash (Unix...

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...

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...

(X=X+1 should be impossible). International Algebraic Language (IAL, ALGOL 58) and ALGOL (1958 and 1960) thus introduced := for assignment, leaving the standard...

F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also A.NET (A#/A sharp) A-0 System A+ (A plus) ABAP ABC ABC ALGOL ACC Accent (Rational Synergy) Ace Distributed...

ALGOL language in the ALGOL 60 report. That is how it is explained in ALGOL programming course material developed by Peter Naur in 1962. Early ALGOL manuals...

and principles were based on the older but more advanced ALGOL family of languages, and ALGOL-like languages such as Pascal and Modula-2 influenced modern...

class of languages of which the line of the algorithmic languages ALGOL was exemplary. ALGOL 68's standard document was published in numerous natural languages...

which most ALGOL implementations are based. As a result, ALGO and other early ALGOL-related languages have a very different syntax from ALGOL 60. Here is...

internal components (e.g. expressions). Many programming languages (e.g. Ada, Algol 60, C, Java, Pascal) make a distinction between statements and definitions/declarations...

alignment. The C struct feature was derived from the same-named concept in ALGOL 68. The syntax for a struct declaration is shown by this simple example:...

expressions, nonlocal GOTO intuitive declaration syntax due to its origin from C. ALGOL 68 doesn't have: public/private struct member access protection, overloaded...

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...

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...

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...

the context of a binary map operation. Originally from ALGOL 60 the conditional assignment of ALGOL is: variable := if condition then expression_1 else expression_2;...

debt to Algol 68, although it did not, perhaps, emerge in a form that Algol's adherents would approve of. The central notion I captured from Algol was a...

formalism invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden for the purpose of defining the ALGOL 68 programming language. The resulting specification remains its most notable...

Backhouse – computer program construction, algorithmic problem solving, ALGOL John Backus – Fortran, BNF Lars Bak – virtual machine specialist Richard...

structure in PL/I terminology. In Algol 68, if Pts was an array of records, each with integer fields X and Y, one could write Y of Pts to obtain an array of...

are limited to a predefined set. The ALGOL 68 specification allowed operator overloading. Extract from the ALGOL 68 language specification (page 177)...

who taught him ALGOL 60 and hence facilitated his expression of powerful recursive algorithms: "Around Easter 1961, a course on ALGOL 60 was offered in...

in the family was the B5000 in 1961, which was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, using single-pass compilers. The B5000 evolved...

Y Cygni is an eclipsing and double-lined spectroscopic binary star system in the constellation of Cygnus. It is located about 4,900 light-years from Earth...

irregular form of the verb think. It refers to the original use of thunks in ALGOL 60 compilers, which required special analysis (thought) to determine what...

across segments. In proposing the collaboration with the ACM that led to ALGOL 58, the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik wrote that it...

USS Algol (AKA-54) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship. She was the first ship of the United States Navy by this name, after Algol, a fixed star...