ALGOL Bulletin

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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

  1. ↑ "The ALGOL Bulletin" . Retrieved 2012-01-08.
  2. ↑ Jones, Cliff; Jayadev Misra (2021). Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN   9781450387316 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 3 Sammet, Jean E. (1969). Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. Prentice Hall. ISBN   9780137299881.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Priestley, Mark (2010). A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming. Springer. ISBN   9781848825543 – via the Internet Archive.
  6. 1 2 Misa, Thomas J. (2016). Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN   9781970001877.


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