Algol Resources

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IFIP WG2.1 has continuing responsibility for 
[[http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?ALGOL][Algol 60]]
and
[[http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?ALGOL+68][Algol 68]]. 
This page collects some information about those languages.

---++ Algol Bulletin

[[mailto:brian.wichmann@bcs.org.uk][Brian Wichmann]] has
digitized back issues of _The Algol Bulletin_. He requests:
<blockquote>
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
[[mailto:Brian.Wichmann@bcs.org.uk][Brian.Wichmann@bcs.org.uk]] or 
c/o Peta Walmisley, British Computer Society, 7 Mansfield Mews, London !W1G 9NJ. 
</blockquote>
The whole archive is now freely available at the
[[http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/algol/algol_bulletin/][Computer History Museum]]. 
It is also accessible through the 
[[http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J33][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 
[[http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm][Revised Report]]
and
[[http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/modified_report.htm][Modified Report]]
to HTML.

[[mailto:klokew@acm.org][W. B. Kloke]] of The University of
Dortmund has converted the 
[[http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/RR/rr.html][Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68]] 
to HTML (and also to
[[http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/RR/rr.pdf][pdf]] and 
[[http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/RR/][TeX]]).
(In case these links are broken, there is a copy of the HTML version at
[[http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/other/a68rr/rr.htm][BURKS]].)
A "completed and corrected" version of Kloke's HTML conversion is available at the [[http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/report.html][Algol 68 Genie]] site;
Algol 68 Genie is a GNU GPL'ed implementation of Algol 68 for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

---++ Other resources

Wikipedia has quote a lot of information about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL][Algol family of languages]],
with pages specific to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60][Algol 60]] and
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68][Algol 68]].
The [[http://dmoz.org/][Open Directory Project]] maintains a page about
[[http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Algol_60/][Algol 60]]
and another about
[[http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Algol_68/][Algol 68]].

[[http://www.mcjones.org/paul/][Paul McJones]] of the 
[[http://www.computerhistory.org/groups/spg/][Software Preservation Group]] at the [[http://www.computerhistory.org/][Computer History Museum]]
maintains a collection of resources about [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/][Algol 58, Algol 60, and Algol 68]].

[[http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/][Karl Kleine]] maintains a web page about 
[[http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history][historic documents in computer science]], 
which includes some information on Algol 68.

[[mailto:greg@algol68.org][Greg Nunan]] owns the domain name 
[[http://www.algol68.org/][algol68.org]], and maintains there a
collection of Algol 68 resources.

The [[http://ershov.iis.nsk.su/english/prj.asp][Ershov archives]] contain a lot of [[http://ershov.iis.nsk.su/archive/eaindex.asp?lang=2&gid=857][Algol 68 and IFIP WG 2.1 related material]].



-- Main.JeremyGibbons - 09 Jul 2012