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Language peer sets for ALGOL:
International↑
International/1958↑
Designed 1958 ↑
1950s languages ↑
Second generation↑
Early Cold War↑
Genus True Algol58s ↑
Numerical Scientific ↑
True Algol58s↑
Generation of Algol 58/IAL↑
Algol family ↑
True Algol58s/1958↑
Generation of Algol 58/IAL/1958↑
Algol family/1958↑
True Algol58s/International↑
Generation of Algol 58/IAL/International↑
Algol family/International↑
Numerical Scientific ↑
Numerical Scientific/1958↑
Numerical Scientific/aa ↑

ALGOL (2966/alg021)

 Algol

ALGOrithmic Language 

alternate simple view
Country: International
Designed 1958
Genus: True Algol58s
Sammet category: Numerical Scientific

for ALGOrithmic Language

family of languages designed to make for the most effective representation of procedural algorithms.

suitable for expressing a large class of numerical processes in a form sufficiently concise for direct automatic translation into the language of programmable automatic computers

People:
Structures:
Related languages
IAL → ALGOL   Renaming
ALGOL → ALGOL 58   Implementation
References:
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          in (1959) 1959 IFIP Congress Paris, France
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          in (1959) 1959 IFIP Congress Paris, France
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          in [ACM] (1960) [ACM] CACM 3(05) May 1960
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          in [ACM] (1961) [ACM] CACM 4(01) (Jan 1961)
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          in Goodman, Richard (ed) (1964) Goodman, Richard (ed) "Annual Review in Automatic Programming" (4) 1964 Pergamon Press, Oxford
  • 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: IAL, Algol 58
          in [AFIPS JCC 25] (1964) [AFIPS JCC 25] Proceedings of the 1964 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 1964
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          in (1967) Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967
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          in (1967) Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967
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          in (1967) Computers & Automation 16(6) June 1967
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          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] CACM 15(07) (July 1972)
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  • (1973) Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977 Interviewee: Morton Bernstein Interviewer: Robina Mapstone Date: March 14, 1973 Archives Center, National Museum of American History Extract: IAL, Algol 58, Algol 60
          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] CACM 15(06) (June 1972)
  • Stock and Stock (1973) Stock, Marylene and Stock, Karl F. "Bibliography of Programming Languages: Books, User Manuals and Articles from PLANKALKUL to PL/I" Verlag Dokumentation, Pullach/Munchen 1973 24 Abstract
          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] CACM 15(06) (June 1972)
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          in (1982) ACM Computing Reviews March 1982
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          in (1982) ACM Computing Reviews March 1982
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          in (1982) ACM Computing Reviews March 1982
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  • (2002) Library of Congress Subject Headings A24
          in [Computer Pioneers] (2001) Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering, Bonn, 28-29. 6. 2001 eds Broy, Manfred and Denert, Ernst Springer 2002
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