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id algol-60
name ALGOL 60
appeared 1960
creators John Backus and Friedrich L. Bauer and Julien Green and Charles Katz and John McCarthy and Peter Naur and Alan Perlis and Heinz Rutishauser and Klaus Samelson and Adriaan van Wijngaarden and Bernard Vauquois and Joseph Henry Wegstein and Michael Woodger
tags pl
description 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 had introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them. ALGOL 60 was the first language implementing nested function definitions with lexical scope. It gave rise to many other programming languages, including CPL, Simula, BCPL, B, Pascal and C.
lab International Federation for Information Processing

fileType text
docs http://www.algol60.org/4documentation.htm

example
 procedure Absmax(a) Size:(n, m) Result:(y) Subscripts:(i, k);
    value n, m; array a; integer n, m, i, k; real y;
 comment The absolute greatest element of the matrix a, of size n by m,
     is transferred to y, and the subscripts of this element to i and k;
 begin
     integer p, q;
     y := 0; i := k := 1;
     for p := 1 step 1 until n do
         for q := 1 step 1 until m do
             if abs(a[p, q]) > y then
                 begin y := abs(a[p, q]);
                     i := p; k := q
                 end
 end Absmax
leachim6 ALGOL 60
 filepath a/ALGOL 60.algol60
 example
  BEGIN
    FILE F(KIND=REMOTE);
    EBCDIC ARRAY E[0:11];
    REPLACE E BY "HELLO WORLD";
    WRITE(F, *, E);
  END.
  

printToken WRITE
stringToken "

hasPrintDebugging true
hasSemanticIndentation false
hasStrings true
 "Hello world"

wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60
 example
  'PROGRAM' (HELLO)
    'BEGIN'
       'COMMENT' OPEN QUOTE IS '(', CLOSE IS ')', PRINTABLE SPACE HAS TO
                 BE WRITTEN AS % BECAUSE SPACES ARE IGNORED;
       WRITE TEXT('('HELLO%WORLD')');
    'END'
    'FINISH'
 related algol-58 simula cpl pascal ada c algol cpl bcpl b algol-w algol-68 cobol scheme lisp synchronized-multimedia-integration-language act-iii elliott-algol espol newp algol-n atlas-autocode coral edinburgh-imp iswim jovial neliac s-algol
 summary 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 had introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them.  ALGOL 60 was the first language implementing nested function definitions with lexical scope.  It gave rise to many other programming languages, including CPL, Simula, BCPL, B, Pascal and C. Niklaus Wirth based his own ALGOL W on ALGOL 60 before moving to develop Pascal. Algol-W was intended to be the next generation ALGOL but the ALGOL 68 committee decided on a design that was more complex and advanced rather than a cleaned simplified ALGOL 60. The official ALGOL versions are named after the year they were first published. Algol 68 is substantially different from Algol 60 and was criticised partially for being so, so that in general "Algol" refers to dialects of Algol 60.
 pageId 692878
 created 2004
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 appeared 1960

hopl https://hopl.info/showlanguage.prx?exp=1807

semanticScholar 0

goodreads
 title|year|author|goodreadsId|rating|ratings|reviews
 primer of ALGOL 60 programming.|1962|Edsger W. Dijkstra|3175934|4.25|4|1
 Algol 60 Implementation: The Translation And Use Of Algol 60 Programs On A Computer||B. Randell|4237805|4.00|1|1
 Course In Programming Algol 60 (Science Paperbacks)||Michael Wells|9980602|0.0|0|0
 Handbook and Guide for Comparing and Selecting Computer Languages: Basic, FORTRAN, PASCAL, COBOL, PL/1, APL, ALGOL-60, C|1985|James R. Ogden|3280647|0.0|0|0
 Compilers by Programming Language: ALGOL 60 Compilers, Assemblers, Basic Compilers, C++ Compilers, Cfml Compilers, C Compilers|2010|Books Group|15842336|0.0|0|0