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:
» Algol 68 Genie (a68g) 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.
Algol 68 Genie is free software released under GNU GPLv3.
» 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 A notable unpublished part is formatted transput.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
» Algol 68 code samples at Rosetta Code
» Software Preservation Group
» Dick Grune's website with legacy Algol 68 data
» LinkedIn Algol 68 professional group
» IFIP Working Group 2.1
» Algol 68 on Wikipedia
