ALGOL 68-R

ALGOL 68R
Original author(s)I. F. Currie, Susan G. Bond, J. D. Morrison
Developer(s)Royal Radar Establishment
Initial releaseJuly 20, 1970; 54 years ago (1970-07-20)
Written inALGOL 60 (original)
ALGOL 68-R (latter)
Operating systemGeorge 3
PlatformICL 1907F
Size34 K words
Available inEnglish
TypeCompiler, translator
LicenseFreeware
Websitesw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/g3

ALGOL 68-R was the first implementation of the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68.

In December 1968, the report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 was published. On 20–24 July 1970 a working conference was arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) to discuss the problems of implementing the language,[1] a small team from the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) attended to present their compiler, written by I. F. Currie, Susan G. Bond,[2] and J. D. Morrison. In the face of estimates of up to 100 man-years to implement the language, using multi-pass compilers with up to seven passes, they described how they had already implemented a one-pass compiler which was in production for engineering and scientific uses.

  1. ^ Peck, J.E.L., ed. (1970), Proceedings of the IFIP working conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation, Munich: North-Holland, ISBN 0-7204-2045-8
  2. ^ Bond, Susan; Abbate, Janet (26 September 2001). "Oral-History: Susan Bond: Developing the World's First ALGOL 68 Compiler". Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Retrieved 22 April 2020 – via United Engineering Foundation (UEF).