ALGOL 68: Difference between revisions

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Pretty much the only variant of the language that sees any use these days, and is in fact seeing something of a mini-renaissance. Algol-68 reached a surprising popularity in Holland with the universities there refusing to buy computer systems that did not support the language in the 70's. There is at the least one very good implementation for 32 bit OS/2 showed up in the form of OCCL Algol 68.

Other variations of the language include the Japanese ALGOL-N a simplified subset of Algol-68 that was quite popular in Asia in the 1970's in particular on Japanese computer hardware.

OS/2 implementations

A68ToC - Public Domain Algol68-to-C translator
OCCL Algol 68 - Commercial - Discontinued

OS/2 text editors with ALGOL 68 support

Lugaru Epsilon - syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent available as a separate download - Commercial

DOS implementations

Algol Applications Ltd MK2 Algol-68 - Freeware - Discontinued

Publications

C. H. Lindsey; S. G. van der Meulen:Informal Introduction to ALGOL 68 Revised Edition - 1980 PDF
Sian Leitch: Programming Algol 68 Made Easy - 2002 PDF

Article

Mikhail A. Bulyonkov, Alexandre F. Rar, Andrey N. Terekhov: Algol 68 – 25 Years in the USSR

Links

The original Algol 68 Report and the Official attachement sheet
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68 - 1976 - Edited by A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Mailloux, J.E.L. Peck, C.H.A. Koster, M. Sintzoff, C.H. Lindsey, L.G.T. Meertens and R.G.Fisker - The report that most later international standards are based on. - The revised version also had an official sub-language and its own Report
Algol 68 Genie

Source code

A library of multigrid routines - by P. W. Hemker and P. M. de Zeeuw
A library of Euler multigrid routines - by P. W. Hemker and P. M. de Zeeuw

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 ===OS/2 text editors with ALGOL 68 support===
-* [[Lugaru Epsilon]] - syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent available as a seperate download - Commercial
+* [[Lugaru Epsilon]] - syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent available as a separate download - Commercial
 ==DOS implementations==
 * [http://www.nunan.myzen.co.uk/algol68/a68mk2.zip Algol Applications Ltd MK2 Algol-68] - Freeware - Discontinued
-==Generic or cross platform source code==
-* [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/source/hemker/mgtext.txt/view A library of multigrid routines] - by P. W. Hemker and P. M. de Zeeuw
-* [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/source/hemker/EulerMG.txt/view A library of Euler multigrid routines] - by P. W. Hemker and P. M. de Zeeuw
 ==Publications==
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 * Sian Leitch: ''Programming Algol 68 Made Easy'' - 2002 [http://www.nunan.myzen.co.uk/algol68/pame.pdf PDF]
-===Articles===
+;Article
 * Mikhail A. Bulyonkov, Alexandre F. Rar, Andrey N. Terekhov: [http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/algol68.htm Algol 68 – 25 Years in the USSR]
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 * [http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/report.html  Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68] - 1976 - Edited by A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Mailloux, J.E.L. Peck, C.H.A. Koster, M. Sintzoff, C.H. Lindsey, L.G.T. Meertens and R.G.Fisker - The report that most later international standards are based on. - The revised version also had an official sub-language and its own [http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/Algol68-RR-Sublanguage.pdf Report]
 *[https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html Algol 68 Genie]
+;Source code
+* [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/source/hemker/mgtext.txt/view A library of multigrid routines] - by P. W. Hemker and P. M. de Zeeuw
+* [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/source/hemker/EulerMG.txt/view A library of Euler multigrid routines] - by P. W. Hemker and P. M. de Zeeuw
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