Dijkstra, pioneer of computer science, dies
News He was on the committee that created Algol, the first block-structured programming language and one that introduced many ideas behind Pascal, Basic and C. His practical skills, especially in discerning and coding algorithms, were also remarkable...
[August 8, 2002, 15:17]
Whatever Happened to The Flowchart?
Talkback When I were a lad we had to flowchart the project up front and comment everything we wrote while putting it into binary, Assembler, Algol, FORTRAN or whatever - so WE knew what was going on afterwards, never mind those who came after us.
[July 12, 2007, 18:05]
iPods and the Inquisition
Blog In early and mid medieval times, it was the best on the planet: any system of knowledge that encompasses algorithms, Algol and alembics gets my vote. An enduring question: what happened to Islamic science and philosophy?
[May 6, 2008, 7:13]
ROTM in the Real World.
Blog I was a fairly decent Fortran programmer until I went to a college where they insisted you had to learn Algol. The problem is that VB 6 is a heck of lot more different compared to VB dotNet than Algol was compared to Fortran.
[August 18, 2008, 9:22]
A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1
Blog Lin is one of the museum volunteers, a enthusiastic veteran of the British technology scene from the days when the mythical giant Algol ruled the land. In the words of Wallace and Gromit, Friday was a Grand Day Out.
[March 8, 2009, 18:20]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog I've programmed in Z80 and x86 assembler, Forth, about 15 Basic variations, Algol, C, VB Script and lately I'm learning some of the Visual Studio 2005 languages. I think that Microsoft deserves to get some competition.
[May 27, 2007, 6:01]
