ALGOL 60

Known as: ALGOL 60 (programming language), Algol-60, Algol60

ALGOL 60 (short for ALGOrithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which…

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2003

In the summer of 1960 Edsger W. Dijkstra and Jaap A. Zonneveld put into operation the very first ALGOL 60 compiler in the world…

1984

The purpose of this work was to perform timing studies comparing th e compile and execution times of the synthetic Whetstone…

1976

This paper describes some programs used to test ALGOL 60 compilers. The results of the tests on six compilers are given together…

1976

The performance of a high-level language machine will depend upon the characteristics of its workload. Equally, the design for…

1966

The facilities to perform floating point arithmetic of unlimited accuracy and to continuously control the round-off error are…

1965

The author expresses his thanks to the referee for several valuable suggestions. procedure Algoledit(characterset, linelimit…

1965

1963

I have pleasure in sending you a copy of the draft "ECMA Subset of ALGOL 60". This work, which was reported briefly at the Munich…

1963

In presenting the following notes I wish to make it clear that they express only my private views. Thus although these views…

1962

The English Electric KDF.9 computing system has a number of unusual features whose origins are to be found in certain decisions…