{"id":619,"date":"2012-09-23T17:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/?p=619"},"modified":"2024-05-08T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:00:03","slug":"algol-68-informal-introduction-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2012\/09\/23\/619\/","title":{"rendered":"Algol 68: <em>Informal Introduction<\/em> and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41RROMgjubL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Cover of Informal Introduction to Algol 68\"\/>Several years ago I began an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/ALGOL\">archival collection<\/a> for the Algol family of programming languages: Algol 58 (originally known as the International Algorithmic Language), Algol 60, and Algol 68. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2010\/05\/16\/148\/\">began<\/a> looking for implementations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/ALGOL\/algol58impl\/\">Algol 58<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/ALGOL\/algol60impl\/\">Algol 60<\/a>. Since then I&#8217;ve also found information (including, in some cases, source code), for many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/ALGOL\/algol68impl\/\">Algol 68<\/a> implementations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like to announce the return of a very useful Algol 68 resource: a scanned copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/ALGOL\/standards\/#ALGOL_68_informal_introduction\"><em>Informal Introduction to Algol 68<\/em><\/a>, posted by permission of coauthor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_H._Lindsey\">Charles H. Lindsey<\/a> and copyright holder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifip.org\">IFIP<\/a>. This is the revised 1980 reprint of the second (&#8220;completely revised&#8221;) edition of 1977. For convenience, I&#8217;ve also posted separate files containing the large fold-out Table of Contents and the appendix of Syntax Charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book, together with Marcel van der Veer&#8217;s modern <a href=\"http:\/\/jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl\">Algol 68 Genie<\/a> implementation and the extensive documentation accompanying it (including a <a href=\"http:\/\/jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl\/report.html\">hypertext version<\/a> of the Revised Report) provide an excellent way to study Algol 68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the above-mentioned, a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/ALGOL\/index#Acknowledgments\">other people<\/a> have contributed to the overall Algol archive project. I&#8217;d like to single out <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NevilleDNZ\">Neville Dempsey<\/a> for his dedication to spreading knowledge of and appreciation for Algol 68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> 2024\/05\/8: Updated link for Neville Dempsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I began an archival collection for the Algol family of programming languages: Algol 58 (originally known as the International Algorithmic Language), Algol 60, and Algol 68. I began looking for implementations of Algol 58 and Algol 60. Since then I&#8217;ve also found information (including, in some cases, source code), for many Algol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2012\/09\/23\/619\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Algol 68: <em>Informal Introduction<\/em> and more&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algol","category-books","category-repositories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}