ALGOL 68
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 70s. 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 1970s in particular on Japanese computer hardware.
OS/2 implementations
- A68ToC - Public Domain Algol68-to-C translator
- OCCL Algol 68 - Commercial
- Editor support
- Lugaru Epsilon - syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware auto-indent available as a separate download
DOS implementations
- Algol Applications Ltd: MK2 Algol-68 - Freeware
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