A Very Informal introduction to ALGOL 68

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A Very Informal introduction to ALGOL 68
by S. G. van der Meulen and C. H. Lindsey.
Published May 1970 by Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam .
Written in English.
Edition Notes
"This document contains chapters from the 'Informal introduction to ALGOL 68' ... In its present state it is a working paper of working group WG 2.1 of the International Federation for Information Processing."
 
Algol 68 was a language for numerical software
Soon after the Revised Report on ALGOL 60 had been issued
in 1962, Working Group 2.1 of IFIP began discussing a successor
language. Various preliminary drafts were submitted in
1965 and that of van Wijngaarden was selected for development.
This led to a series of further drafts, and finally the
ALGOL 68 Report was published in 1969. This process was not
without its casualties—several members of the Working Group
resigned at various stages and at the end a large minority voted
against the adoption of the Report.
 
The boundary line in ALGOL 68 between standard operators
and standard procedures appears to have been drawn so that
standard operators would normally be compiled as in-line
code whereas standard procedures would be compiled as
linkages to subroutines, though this is never explicitly stated.
Even the operator T could fit into this scheme since it is defined
This document was kindly donated by Helen Young


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Date Published : May 1970

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH8776. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
 

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