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An Automata-Theoretic Model of Objects

An Automata-Theoretic Model of Objects

In this paper, the authors present a new model of class-based Algol-like programming languages inspired by automata-theoretic concepts. The model may be... Read more

9 October, 2011

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

...extraordinary computer called the Burroughs B5000. I learned to program in Burroughts Algol (BALGOL) and discovered that you could create whole, simulated worlds that basically... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
Agena 1.6

Agena 1.6

...and many other applications, including scripting. Its syntax looks like very simplified Algol 68 with elements taken from Lua and SQL. The interpreter provides fast... Read more

22 May, 2012
Cobol Programming Language with Reference 2.0

Cobol Programming Language with Reference 2.0

...May 28 and 29 of 1959 (exactly one year after the Zrich ALGOL 58 meeting); there it was decided to set up three committees: short... Read more

19 May, 2012
C Programming Language with Reference 2.0

C Programming Language with Reference 2.0

...I), and MCP (Master Control Program) for the Burroughs B5000 written in ALGOL in 1961.)In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published the first... Read more

29 April, 2012
Pascal Programming Language 1.6

Pascal Programming Language 1.6

...programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.Pascal based on the Algol programming language, named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise... Read more

24 February, 2012
C++ Programming Language Lite 1.6

C++ Programming Language Lite 1.6

...used. Besides C and Simula, some other languages that inspired him were Algol 68, Ada, CLU and ML. At first, the class, derived class, strong... Read more

22 February, 2012
Agena 1.5.1

Agena 1.5.1

...and many other applications, including scripting. Its syntax looks like very simplified Algol 68 with elements taken from Lua and SQL. The interpreter provides fast... Read more

15 November, 2011
Integrated Development Environment for ClearPath MCP

Integrated Development Environment for ClearPath MCP

...to build new or enhance the current MCP applications written in COBOL, ALGOL, Java, Java EE, and other languages. This technical webcast will provide developers... Read more

10 November, 2010

Dijkstra, pioneer of computer science, dies

...and methodology to computer programming. He was on the committee that created Algol, the first block-structured programming language and one that introduced many ideas... Read more

8 August, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins
J Is for JavaScript: A Direct-Style Correspondence Between <endeca_term>Algol</endeca_term>-Like Languages and JavaScript Using Rst-Class Continuations

J Is for JavaScript: A Direct-Style Correspondence Between Algol-Like Languages and JavaScript Using Rst-Class Continuations

...The authors illustrate this tension by revisiting Landin's original correspondence between Algol and Church's lambda-notation. They translate domain-specific programs with lexically... Read more

24 March, 2009
History of Programming Languages-II

History of Programming Languages-II

It is more than a decade one is still using ALGOL, APL, APT, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, GPSS, JOSS Read more

4 April, 2005

A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1

...of the British technology scene from the days when the mythical giant Algol ruled the land. Spending the afternoon just talking to her would have... Read more

8 March, 2009

ROTM in the Real World.

...I went to a college where they insisted you had to learn Algol. Ever hear of it? Probably not. Really the only differences were all... Read more

18 August, 2008

iPods and the Inquisition

...the best on the planet: any system of knowledge that encompasses algorithms, Algol and alembics gets my vote. But as the West clicked into overdrive... Read more

6 May, 2008

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