tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) (01/05/90)
The recent "Late Bloomers..." thread talked a bit about Algol-68 and it's decendents. Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or any revised papers about Algol-68? Thanks in advance. -- Tom Markson ...!uunet!usblues!tom ...!cbmvax!amix!blekko!usblues!tom
chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) (01/09/90)
tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) writes: >The recent "Late Bloomers..." thread talked a bit about Algol-68 and it's >decendents. Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or >any revised papers about Algol-68? Unfortunately, most books written on ALGOL 68 are probably now out of print (the few remaining copies of my own book which I recently advertised on the net were soon snapped up). The one exception is probaly the "Guide to ALGOL 68 for users of RS Systems" by Woodward & Bond published in the UK by Edward Arnold (ISBN 0 7131 3490 9). Another good place to look is "A Tutorial on ALGOL 68 by A.S.Tanenbaum" in ACM Computing Surveys Vol 8 #2 June 1976 p155 (also Sept 1977 for errata). If you want to dig into the legalities (not recommended for first comers), the defining Report was in Acta Informatica Vol 5 #1,2,3 Dec 1975 and in Sigplan Notices May 1977 (general permission to copyleft included). The CWI in Amsterdam may have a few copies left for sale, and I still have a few (poorish) microfiche copies left that went out with the ALGOL Bulletin once.
rdh@myrias.com (Dale Hagglund) (01/11/90)
tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) writes: >decendents. Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or >any revised papers about Algol-68? I recommend "A Practical Guide to Algol68" by Frank G. Pagan, published by John Wiley and Sons. From the point of view of actually using the language, it is much more useful than the formal definition of the language, the Algol 68 Revised Report, which is largely impenetrable unless you know W-grammars (cf. double-level grammars). For an introduction to W-grammars, see "Grammars for Programming Languages" by J. Craig Cleaveland and Robert C. Uzgalis, published by Elsevier. It is, I believe, currently out of print. -- Dale Hagglund rdh@myrias.com Myrias Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada {uunet,alberta}!myrias!rdh
mph@oberon.inmos.co.uk (Mike Harrison) (01/11/90)
In article <564@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes: ... stuff deleted >If you want to dig into the legalities (not recommended for first comers), the >defining Report was in Acta Informatica Vol 5 #1,2,3 Dec 1975 and in Sigplan >Notices May 1977 (general permission to copyleft included). My copy of the revised report was published (in 1976) as a book by Springer- Verlag, apparently with two different ISBNs : ISBN 3-540-07592-5 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 0-387-07592-5 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York You might find a copy of this somewhere. Michael P. Harrison - Software Group - Inmos Ltd. UK. ----------------------------------------------------------- UK : mph@inmos.co.uk with STANDARD_DISCLAIMERS; US : mph@inmos.com use STANDARD_DISCLAIMERS;
gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff) (01/18/90)
In article <632038137.25855@myrias.com>, rdh@myrias.com (Dale Hagglund) writes: >tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) writes: >>decendents. Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or >>any revised papers about Algol-68? > >I recommend > > "A Practical Guide to Algol68" > >by Frank G. Pagan, published by John Wiley and Sons. From the point >of view of actually using the language, it is much more useful than >the formal definition of the language, the Algol 68 Revised Report, >which is largely impenetrable unless you know W-grammars (cf. >double-level grammars). For an introduction to W-grammars, see > > "Grammars for Programming Languages" > >by J. Craig Cleaveland and Robert C. Uzgalis, published by Elsevier. >It is, I believe, currently out of print. >-- >Dale Hagglund rdh@myrias.com >Myrias Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada {uunet,alberta}!myrias!rdh I recommend this book too. Dr. Pagan was my professor for Formal Grammars and also for Compiler Construction during grad school and was chairman of my thesis committee. For the Formal Grammars class we used "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", also (suprisingly? 8-) by Dr. Frank G. Pagan. The mini-languages in this book are "Algol like" languages, and his "pseudo-code" for both classes on the black-board was in fact, you guessed it, Algol-68. The university where I was, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, didn't teach Algol-68, but we picked it up pretty quickly, we had to. 8-) Interesting books, and Dr. Pagan is one of the Algol-68 evangelists, at least when I knew him.