ALGOL Bulletin
The ALGOL Bulletin (ISSN 0084-6198) was a periodical regarding the ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68 programming languages. It was produced under the auspices of IFIP Working Group 2.1 and published from March 1959 till August 1988. Throughout its run, the periodical produced many influential programming language proposals, while its open-dialogue nature prefigured the modern software development mailing list.
| Discipline | Computer science |
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| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1959–1988 |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | ALGOL Bull. |
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| ISSN | 0084-6198 |
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The ALGOL Bulletin (ISSN 0084-6198) was a periodical regarding the ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68 programming languages. It was produced under the auspices of IFIP Working Group 2.1 and published from March 1959 till August 1988.[1] Throughout its run, the periodical produced many influential programming language proposals,[2] while its open-dialogue nature prefigured the modern software development mailing list.[3]
History
[edit]The genesis for ALGOL Bulletin came in November 1958 at a meeting in Copenhagen between 40 representatives from large commercial and academic computing institutions in Europe. Wishing to promogulate knowledge of the ALGOL programming language to the broader computing world, the group discussed starting a newsletter.[4]: 174–175 [5]: 226 Peter Naur was tasked in February 1959 with editing and circulating the charter issue, which was published the following month, in March 1959.[5] Naur initially published the newsletter out of his work office at Regnecentralen in Copenhagen.[5]: 226 Within a year, the ALGOL Bulletin became the main forum for development of the ALGOL language, circulating across Europe, the United States, and even the Soviet Union.[6] Per Jean E. Sammet, ALGOL Bulletin remained more popular in Europe, while across the Atlantic the Communications of the ACM was the periodical of choice for most American ALGOL enthusiasts.[4]: 174
Publication of the ALGOL Bulletin was ceased between June 1962 and May 1964, shortly after the IFIP Working Group 2.1 was founded in April 1962 to support and maintain ALGOL 60, the most popular specification of ALGOL.[5]: 227 [6]: 207–208 Development of ALGOL heretofore had been largely mediated through informal correspondence in the ALGOL Bulletin, but external pressures to create a standards body such as the IFIP WG 2.1 led to the temporary collapse of the ALGOL Bulletin.[5]: 227
The ALGOL Bulletin was revived in May 1964, operated under the auspices of the IFIP WG 2.1. Duncan Fraser took over as editor of the periodical from Naur.[4]: 175 The revived ALGOL Bulletin was published at irregular intervals until the final issue in August 1988.[5]: 228
References
[edit]- ^ "The ALGOL Bulletin". Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ Jones, Cliff; Jayadev Misra (2021). Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN 9781450387316 – via Google Books.
- ^ Speed, Richard (15 May 2020). "ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree". The Register. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020.
- ^ a b c Sammet, Jean E. (1969). Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780137299881.
- ^ a b c d e f Priestley, Mark (2010). A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming. Springer. ISBN 9781848825543 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Misa, Thomas J. (2016). Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN 9781970001877.
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