Elliott ALGOL

Elliott ALGOL
Paradigms	Multi-paradigm: procedural, imperative, structured
Family	ALGOL
Designed by	Tony Hoare, Jill Hoare and others
Developer	Elliott Brothers
First appeared	February 1962;63 years ago (1962-02)
Typing discipline	Static, strong
Scope	Lexical (static)
Implementation language	Assembly
Platform	Elliott 803
Influenced by
ALGOL 60

Elliott ALGOL is a compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60, for the Elliott 803 computer made by Elliott Brothers in the United Kingdom. It was implemented by Tony Hoare and others. ^[1] It differed slightly from the reference version of ALGOL, particularly in the supported character set. ^[2] First released in February 1962, it is believed to be the first implementation of an ALGOL 60 compiler in a commercial context and was an unexpectedly popular product for the company. ^[3]

References

1. Hoare, Charles Antony Richard (27 October 1980). "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture" (PDF). Nashville, Tennessee: Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved 2 May 2021– via Florida State University.
2. Baldwin, Tim (December 2013). "Elliot 803: The ALGOL Compiler" . Retrieved 2 May 2021.
3. Lavington, Simon (2011). Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947-67. Springer. pp. 283–287. ISBN   978-1848829329.

Further reading

• Wooldridge, Roylance; Ractliffe, John Fuller (1966). An Introduction to ALGOL Programming. Applied mathematics (2nd ed.). London: English Universities Press.