ALGOL Bulletin
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The ALGOL Bulletin was published by the Association for Computing Machinery
regarding the ALGOL 60
and ALGOL 68
programming languages from March 1959 till August 1988.
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
regarding the ALGOL 60
ALGOL 60
ALGOL 60 is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It gave rise to many other programming languages, including BCPL, B, Pascal, Simula, C, and many others. ALGOL 58 introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them...
and ALGOL 68
ALGOL 68
ALGOL 68 isan imperative computerprogramming language that was conceived as a successor to theALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a...
programming languages from March 1959 till August 1988.
Time-line of ALGOL Bulletin
| Year | Event | Contributor |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 1959 | ALGOL Bulletin Issue 1 (First) | Peter Naur Peter Naur Peter Naur is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation , used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages... / ACM Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009... |
| Dec 1968 | Algol 68 Final Report Presented at Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat... Meeting |
IFIP Working Group 2.1 |
| Jun 1977 | Strathclyde Strathclyde right|thumb|the former Strathclyde regionStrathclyde was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc Act 1994... ALGOL 68 conference, Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
ACM |
| Aug 1988 | ALGOL Bulletin Issue 52 (last) | Ed. C. H. Lindsey / ACM |