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ALGOL 68

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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 of ALGOL 68

  • 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 seperate download - Commercial

DOS implementations of ALGOL 68

Generic or cross platform source code

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

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