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There is an Algol 68 interpreter for DOS and Linux here.
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Laszlo Csirmaz  You can download some of my lecture notes, they are in Hungarian. You can write to me at Here is my secret from EuroCrypt 2004 conference in Interlaken, Switzerland. Ezoterikus Logikk ZH mintapldk a logika rra. ELTE ZH mintapldk December...
http://www.math-inst.hu/%7ecsirmaz/

Algol 68S compilers for Sun3, Sun Sparc, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes.
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Charles Lindsey's Home Page  Why else are you looking here? OK then, here it is. I used to be a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (and before that I worked for Ferranti/ICT, and before even that...
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/

Contains the source for an Algol 68 to C translator (but site now seems dead).
ftp://ftp.dra.hmg.gb/pub/ella

Ongoing project to create machine readable Algol 68 Revised Report (this version in HTML).
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Home Page of W. B. Kloke  If anybody reading this page happens to have access to a copy of the computer progranm Algol 68 with fewer tears not the journal article with the same name) by C.H.Lindsey, please give me a note. http dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Algol_68Hier sind Links...
http://members.dokom.net/w.kloke/

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.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155365

Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0387075925. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9061960894

A fairly fully featured Algol 68 implementation (interpreter) for Linux, BSD and MacOS. Author of Algol68G is Marcel van der Veer. [Open source, GPL]
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Algol 68 Genie An Algol 68 interpreter  Author and contact information Lisp and Algol, are built around a kernel that seems as natural as a branch of mathematics D. R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas Releases Algol68G Mark 8.1 Algol68G Mark 8 What is Algol 68 Genie? Algol 68...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jmvdveer/algol.html

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

Portable translator to allow compiling Algol 68 code, and some example Algol 68 programs in the same directory.
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Algol-68  Strassen matrix multiplication Tree-merge by continuations Y fixed-point operator W. B. Kloke's home-page[4/1999] or home-page[12/2003] with Algol68 history, A68-related items and Ella-derived (see below) a68toc translator [4/1999] Algol-68 to C: ctrans, ELLA From: Andy Pryor Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Declarations...
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeProgLang/Algol68/

A brief description of ALGOL 68 System implemented on Cm*.
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C:BELLBO~1COMPUT~1HTMFILES0000506.HTM  S tours that satisfies all the flight legs (one and only one crew makes a flight leg We are looking for the solution with the lowest cost. As in the previous applications, the master processor initializes the computation, creates the...
http://www.research.microsoft.co...omputer_Engineering/00000506.htm

By Aristotelis Tsirigos; designed, implemented for compiler course at NYU, goal: compiler for a subset of Algol 68 that is able to bootstrap.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~at570/compiler.html

The WG that developed the Algol languages.
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Home Page IFIP Working Group 2.1  Calculi a working group within TC-2 (Software: Theory and Practice which in turn is a technical committee of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing Contents of this page: WG2.1 Events Aim Scope Members Profile Aim To explore and evaluate new...
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/wg21/

By Frank G. Pagan; John Wiley & Sons, 1976, ISBN 0471657476. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471657476

Paul Branquart, Jean-Pierre Cardinael, Johan Lewi, Jean-Paul Delescaille, Michael Van Begin; Springer-Verlag, 1976, ISBN 0387075453. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387075453

Unfinished project to write Algol 68 compiler; source code provided in CWEBx.
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Marc's programming projects  Here is a list of such projects, most of which are not, and may never be, completed. In cases where I have added a reference to actual code, it is made available in the understanding that the documentation has not...
http://wwwmathlabo.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/myprojects.html

Dick Grune's Algol 68 directory with test sets, transput, and a Snobol interpreter.
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Index of /pub/dick/Algol68  Index of /pub/dick/Algol68 Name Last modified Size Parent Directory 21-Oct-2005 09:41 MiscellaneousPrograms 25-Aug-1978 17:37 331k RevisedReport 25-Aug-1978 17:35 744k SnobolInterpreterFra 25-Aug-1978 17:35 34k TestsetBernardHoussais 25-Aug-1978 17:37 1.0M TestsetDickGrune 28-Aug-1979 14:49 354k TestsetPaulBranquart 03-Aug-1979 15:48 168k TransputHansVanVliet 28-Aug-1979 15:27 127k Apache/1.3.26...
http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/Algol68/

Has scans of many Algol 68 documents including the RRE Algol 68R 'Green Book.'
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historic documents in computer science and engineering  Kossow has in his manual collection also an IBM 704 manual, if you want to have a look at the machine that this original Fortran language was made for. Also the next IBM manuals are from the collection at his...
http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/history.html

EMX and Linux ports of A68ToC, the MC Revised ALGOL 68 Test Set, early version of OCCL compiler, other Algol 68 related items.
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Algol 68 home page  This site is dedicated to matters related to the programming language Resources The Making of Algol 68 by C. H. A. Koster. Personal memories of Kees Koster, one of the authors of the Algol 68 Reports, about the events surrounding...
http://www.nunan.fsnet.co.uk/algol68/

LANIT-TERCOM have experience in Algol 68 and produce an Algol 68 compiler for MS-DOS
http://www.tepkom.ru/eng/services/softdev.asp

C.H. Lindsey; The Computer Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 176-188. Abstract and text in TIFF format.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_j..._15/Issue_02/150176.sgm.abs.html

By H.D. Baecker; The Computer Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 25-27. Abstract and text in TIFF format.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_j..._13/Issue_01/130025.sgm.abs.html

By M.A. Hennell, D, Hedley; The Computer Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 53-56. Abstract and text in TIFF format.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/..._22/Issue_01/220053.sgm.abs.html

Abstract and text in TIFF form from The Computer Journal, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp. 114-118.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/..._22/Issue_02/220114.sgm.abs.html

By Frank G. Pagan; The Computer Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 63-66. Abstract and text in TIFF format.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/..._22/Issue_01/220063.sgm.abs.html

using Algol 68. Abstract and text in TIFF form from The Computer Journal, Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 480-486.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/..._28/Issue_05/280480.sgm.abs.html

Abstract and text in TIFF form from The Computer Journal, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 316-323.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/..._21/Issue_04/210316.sgm.abs.html

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

The historical IFIP WG2.1 series of Algol Bulletins and Algol Supplements scanned by Brian Wichmann
http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/Jere...ns/wg21/algol-bulletin/INDEX.HTM

A short overview of the main features of Algol 68.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes...l/slides/algol68_files/frame.htm

Has versions of Algol 68 Revised Report (in .dvi, .ps and .pdf formats) and numerous Algol 68 related links.
http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/

A translation of the Report into HTML by W. B. Kloke.
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/other/a68rr/rrtoc.htm

Thesis by R. Morrison describing an implementation of S-Algol. Abstract. Text in PDF format.
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Publication: Mor79a  The thesis outlines the major problems in the design of high level programming languages. The complexity of these languages has caused the user problems in intellectual manageability. Part of this complexity is caused by lack of generality which also causes...
http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/research/publications/Mor79a.php

Entry in an interactive historical roster of computer languages.
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ALGOL 68  But it was also the first truly universal language.Structural equivalence. Automatic type conversion, including dereferencing. Flexible arrays. Generalized loops (for-from-by-to-while-do-od if-then-elif-fi, integer case statement with out clause, skip statement, goto. Blocks, procedures and user-defined operators. Procedure parameters. Concurrent execution (cobegin/coend)...
http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showl....prx?exp=311&language=ALGOL%2068

A synopsis of the features of Algol 68.
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Algol68  This synopsis was once at http www.seasys.demon.co.uk/SSP82h/Algol68.html and is resurrected here from the wayBack machine. My notes are here. Algol68 a. Computational model: Imperative. b. Machine/problem-oriented: Algol 68 is a complex language for writing medium-sized applications. Variants have been created...
http://www.cap-lore.com/Software/Algol68.html

Interesting history of Algol 68 in the USSR and the Leningrad compiler.
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Algol 68 25 Years in the USSR  In these places people began to send numerous remarks on the language and to consider its Russian terminology. The process of translating the report on Algol 68 into Russian followed the process of its up-to-dating in English so closely that...
http://ant.tepkom.ru/eng/publications/articles/Algol68.html

A short text of the language's history.
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 Furthermore there have been translations into German, Russian, French and Chinese. This document (and its predecessor, the Draft Report on ALGOL 68 which was sent out in February 1968 to 1000 members of the computing community created at the time...
http://npt.cc.rsu.ru/user/wanderer/ODP/ALGOL68.txt

A translation of the Report into HTML by W. B. Kloke.
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Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68  Report has been accepted by Working Group 2.1, reviewed by Technical Committee 2 on Programming and approved for publication by the General Assembly of The International Federation for Information Processing. Reproduction of the Report, for any purpose, but only of...
http://members.dokom.net/w.kloke/RR/