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About this project
The development of Algol played an important role in establishing computer science as an academic discipline.
The
SourceForge Algol 68 project
preserves and promotes Algol 68 by making available open source Algol 68 implementations and documentation.
Currently, two implementations are available from this project:
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a68g (Algol 68 Genie)
is a recent checkout hybrid compiler-interpreter,
written from scratch by
Marcel van der Veer.
It ranks among the most complete Algol 68 implementations.
It implements for example arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex numbers,
parallel processing, partial parametrisation and formatted transput,
as well as support for curses, regular expressions and sounds.
It can be linked to GNU plotutils, the GNU scientific library and PostgreSQL.
Package a68g is free software released under
GNU GPLv3.
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algol68toc
is a port by
Sian Mountbatten
of those parts of vintage
ALGOL68RS
that were made available as ctrans with
DRA Malvern's ELLA package.
A notable unpublished part is formatted transput.
Since ALGOL68RS was a one-pass compiler, algol68toc puts
restrictions
on Algol 68.
The components of algol68toc have multiple licenses that should be
read carefully:
it is open source software, but not all components are fully free.
Project team
» Algol 68 Genie author and maintainer:
Marcel van der Veer.
» Package builder:
Neville Dempsey.
Further information
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Algol 68
on Wikipedia
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Learning Algol 68 Genie
- comprehensive documentation (pdf)
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Algol 68 code samples
at Rosetta Code
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Software Preservation Group
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Test sets at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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LinkedIn Algol 68 professional group
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IFIP Working Group 2.1
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Online documentation
Edited by Marcel van der Veer.
A detailed description of Algol 68 containing an informal introduction to the language,
a manual for Algol 68 Genie,
and the Revised Report on Algol 68.
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Revised Report on Algol 68
Edited by Marcel van der Veer.
Hyperlinked HTML version of this formal report, that ranks among the difficult publications in computer science.
Informal Introduction to Algol 68
Recently, this well-known book
by C.H. Lindsey and S.G. van der Meulen [1977],
was made available online.
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Packages and Links
Precompiled Algol 68 Genie
SourceForge Repository
Project home pages
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SourceForge Algol 68 project
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a68g project home page
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algol68toc project home page
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Microsoft Windows executable
Cygwin binary package
Debian binary package
Ubuntu binary package
FreeBSD binary package
NetBSD binary package
Mac OS X binary package
All packages at SourceForge
