Directory of Algol 68 Resources

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Algol 68 is a procedural language designed under the auspices of IFIP Working Group 2.1 as a successor to Algol 60. The language is formally defined in the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68 by A. van Wijngaarden et al using a VW (2 level) grammar. It is designed to be as orthogonal as possible and is block structured via the constructs: if - then - else - fi, case - in - out - esac, from - by - from - to - while - do. It is strongly typed with user definable modes and automatic de-referencing and coercion. Memory management is automatic, via garbage collection. Transput (I/O) is defined in the language and includes comprehensive formatting abilities. It did not gain widespread popularity, possibly due to the price/availability of compilers, or its perceived complexity. In some ways it was ahead of its time and some features have influenced subsequent languages such as C++.

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• 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

  http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
  Algol 68 version.

• A comparison of PASCAL and ALGOL 68

  http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/4/316.abstract
  Abstract and text in TIFF form from The Computer Journal, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 316-323.

• A History of ALGOL 68

  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155365
  By C.H. Lindsey; ACM Digital Library, 1993, ISSN 0362-1340. Abstract of article from the Second ACM SIGPLAN Conference on History of Programming Languages, 1993. Full text for ACM members only.

• ALGOL 68

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68
  Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

• Algol 68 Genie

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~jmvdveer/algol.html
  Algol68G is a well featured Algol 68 implementation (interpreter) for Linux, BSD, and MacOS. Author: Marcel van der Veer. [Open source, GPL]

• Algol 68 to C

  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeProgLang/Algol68/
  Portable translator to allow compiling Algol 68 code, and some example Algol 68 programs in the same directory.

• Algol68

  http://www.cap-lore.com/Software/Algol68.html
  A synopsis of the features of Algol 68.

• An Experimental Testbed for Numerical Software, part 2: ALGOL 68

  http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/53.abstract
  By M.A. Hennell, D, Hedley; The Computer Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 53-56. Abstract and text in PDF format.

• An Introduction To Algol 68

  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=154766.155381
  The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages.

• Charles Lindsey's Home Page

  http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/
  Algol 68S compilers for Sun3, Sun Sparc, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes.

• Computer Engineering by Gordon Bell et al.

  http://research.microsoft.com/users/GBell/Computer_Engineering/00000506.htm
  A brief description of ALGOL 68 System implemented on Cm*.

• Historic Documents in Computer Science

  http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/history.html
  Has scans of many Algol 68 documents including the RRE Algol 68R 'Green Book.'

• IFIP Working Group 2.1

  http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/wg21/
  The WG that developed the Algol languages.

• Index of /pub/dick/Algol68

  http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/Algol68/
  Dick Grune's Algol 68 directory with test sets, transput, and a Snobol interpreter.

• László Csirmaz

  http://www.renyi.hu/~csirmaz/
  There is an Algol 68 interpreter for DOS and Linux here.

• Marc's Programming Projects

  http://wwwmathlabo.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/myprojects.html
  Unfinished project to write Algol 68 compiler; source code provided in CWEBx.

• Practical experience with ALGOL 68-RT

  http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/2/114.abstract
  Abstract and text in PDF form from The Computer Journal, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp. 114-118.

• Programming denotational semantics II

  http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/5/480.abstract
  using Algol 68. Abstract and text in PDF form from The Computer Journal, Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 480-486.

• The Algol Bulletin

  http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J33
  The historical IFIP WG2.1 series of Algol Bulletins. [Required ACM Web account]

• The Use of ALGOL 68 for Trees

  http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/1/25.abstract
  By H.D. Baecker; The Computer Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 25-27. Abstract and text in PDF format.

• VanWijngaarden MR76.pdf

  http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/VanWijngaarden-MR76.pdf
  A. vanWijngaarden's MR76 paper on the orthogonal design of a language from 1965, which was the starting point of Algol 68.

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