ALGOL 68-R
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ALGOL 68-R was the first implementation of the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68.
Original author(s) | I. F. Currie, Susan G. Bond, J. D. Morrison |
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Developer(s) | Royal Radar Establishment |
Initial release | July 20, 1970; 53 years ago (1970-07-20) |
Written in | ALGOL 60 (original) ALGOL 68-R (latter) |
Operating system | George 3 |
Platform | ICL 1907F |
Size | 34 K words |
Available in | English |
Type | Compiler, translator |
License | Freeware |
Website | sw |
In December 1968, the report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 was published. On 20–24 July 1970 a working conference was arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) to discuss the problems of implementing the language,[1] a small team from the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) attended to present their compiler, written by I. F. Currie, Susan G. Bond,[2] and J. D. Morrison. In the face of estimates of up to 100 man-years to implement the language, using multi-pass compilers with up to seven passes, they described how they had already implemented a one-pass compiler which was in production for engineering and scientific uses.