Algol Resources
IFIP21
IFIP WG2.1 has continuing responsibility for
Algol 60
and
Algol 68.
This page collects some information about those languages.
Algol Bulletin
Brian Wichmann has
digitized back issues of
The Algol Bulletin. He requests:
I am trying to contact authors of papers that have appeared in The Algol
Bulletin, as I am starting to produce an electronic version and need to get
the authors' permission to reproduce their copyright material digitally.
If you contributed to The Algol Bulletin, please contact me at
Brian.Wichmann@bcs.org.uk or
c/o Peta Walmisley, British Computer Society, 7 Mansfield Mews, London W1G 9NJ.
The whole archive is now freely available at the
Computer History Museum.
It is also accessible through the
ACM Digital Library,
who provide PDF documents of the many articles; but to access this resource
you need to be an ACM DL subscriber (or create a free ACM account).
Language reports
N. Landsteiner of Mass:Werk in Austria has converted the Algol 60
Revised Report
and
Modified Report
to HTML.
W. B. Kloke of The University of
Dortmund has converted the
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68
to HTML (and also to
pdf and
TeX).
(There is a copy of the HTML version at
BURKS.)
Other resources
Wikipedia has quote a lot of information about the
Algol family of languages,
with pages specific to
Algol 60 and
Algol 68.
The
Open Directory Project maintains a page about
Algol 60
and another about
Algol 68.
Paul McJones of the
Software Preservation Group at the
Computer History Museum
maintains a collection of resources about
Algol 58, Algol 60, and Algol 68.
Karl Kleine maintains a web page about
historic documents in computer science,
which includes some information on Algol 68.
Greg Nunan owns the domain name
algol68.org, and maintains there a
collection of Algol 68 resources.
The
Ershov archives contain a lot of
Algol 68 and IFIP WG 2.1 related material.
--
JeremyGibbons - 29 May 2010
