ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had...

gave detailed attention to formal language definition and through the Algol 60 Report introduced Backus–Naur form, a principal formal grammar notation...

programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According to John Backus The Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference had two principal...

ALGOL W is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively...

new programming language IAL, known today as ALGOL 58 (1959). His notation was first used in the ALGOL 60 report. BNF is a notation for Chomsky's context-free...

languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. It attempted to find a "short-term solution to existing difficulties". ALGOL N and ALGOL W were two other ALGOL versions...

'Number is: ', number end program ALGOL 60 was criticized for having no standard file access.[citation needed] ALGOL 68's input and output facilities were...

U+23E8 TTF). ALGOL 68 (short for Algorithmic Language 1968) is an imperative programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming...

development of IBM's earlier Autocode systems. The ALGOL family, with ALGOL 58 defined in 1958 and ALGOL 60 defined in 1960 by committees of European and American...

foundations, assemblers, automatable command line interfaces (shells), etc. cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline Notes: Complete except for...