User's Guide to ALGOL 68-R
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Our copy of User's Guide to ALGOL 68-R is the first edition. by P M Woodward and Susan G Bond 1974
Algol 68 was a language for numerical software
Soon after the Revised Report on ALGOL 60 had been issued
in 1962, Working Group 2.1 of IFIP began discussing a successor language. Various preliminary drafts were submitted in 1965 and that of van Wijngaarden was selected for development. This led to a series of further drafts, and finally the ALGOL 68 Report was published in 1969. This process was not without its casualties—several members of the Working Group resigned at various stages and at the end a large minority voted against the adoption of the Report. There is only one working implementation widely available at
present, namely that written at the Royal Radar Establishment at Malvern for the ICL 1900 series. This is a one-pass compiler, and a few modifications were made to the language to make compilation easier. The resultant language has been named ALGOL 68-R. The boundary line in ALGOL 68 between standard operators
and standard procedures appears to have been drawn so that standard operators would normally be compiled as in-line code whereas standard procedures would be compiled as linkages to subroutines, though this is never explicitly stated. Even the operator T could fit into this scheme since it is defined This document was kindly donated by Helen Young
This document (124 foolscap) pageswas kindly donated by Helen Young
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