Language peer sets for ALGO: United States↑ United States/1958↑ Designed 1958 ↑ 1950s languages ↑ Second generation↑ Early Cold War↑ Genus Low-level Autocoders ↑ Numerical Scientific ↑ Low-level Autocoders↑ Autocoders↑ US historic algorithmic systems ↑ Low-level Autocoders/1958↑ Autocoders/1958↑ US historic algorithmic systems/1958↑ Low-level Autocoders/United States↑ Autocoders/United States↑ US historic algorithmic systems/United States↑ Numerical Scientific ↑ Numerical Scientific/1958↑ Numerical Scientific/us ↑
ALGO (2791/alg017)
Algorithmic language for Bendix G-15
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Country: United States
Designed 1958
Published: 1958
Genus: Low-level Autocoders
Sammet category: Numerical Scientific Algorithmic language for Bendix G-15. THe first commercial implementation of the IAL Hardware:
001. TITLE Sample Program 002. FORMAt A(S3DPT), B(S3DP2DT) 003. BEGIN 004. n = 0 005. sum = 0 006. max = 0 007. A1: BELLS(2) 008. price = KEYBD 009. IF price > 0 BEGIN 010. n = n + 1 011. sum = sum + price 012. IF price > max 013. max = price 014. GO TO A1 END 015. PRINT(A) = n 016. PRINT(B) = sum 017. PRINT(B) = max 018. CARR(2) 019. END
References:
[Bendix] (1960) [Bendix] "Algebraic compiler for the Bendix G-15 general purpose computer". Bendix Computer Div., Bendix Corp. Report No. T21, 1960
Extract:
ForewardExtract:
Introduction to Algol
[BENDIX] (1961) [BENDIX] Programming notes for the ALGO system Bendix Computer Division TAM-72 1961
Abstract
(1961) Bottenbruch, Hermann review of BENDIX 1960
Abstract in (1961) ACM Computing Reviews 2(04) July-August 1961
Sammet, Jean E (1961) Sammet, Jean E "1960 Tower of Babel" diagram on the front of CACM January 1961
Picture: Cover of ACM Communications December 1961 in [ACM] (1961) [ACM] CACM 4(01) (Jan 1961)
Rosen, Saul (1964) Rosen, Saul "Programming Systems and Languages: a historical Survey" (reprinted in Rosen, Saul (ed) Programming Systems & Languages. McGraw Hill, New York, 1967)
Extract:
The Algol 58-alike languages in [AFIPS JCC 25] (1964) [AFIPS JCC 25] Proceedings of the 1964 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 1964
Stock (1971) Stock, Karl F. "A listing of some programming languages and their users" in RZ-Informationen. Graz: Rechenzentrum Graz 1971 11
Abstract in [AFIPS JCC 25] (1964) [AFIPS JCC 25] Proceedings of the 1964 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 1964
Sammet, Jean E., (1972) Sammet, Jean E., "Programming languages: history and future"
in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] CACM 15(06) (June 1972) Resources