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A contribution to the development of ALGOL
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A programming language similar in many respects to ALGOL 60, but incorporating a large number of improvements based on six years' experience with that language, is described in detail.Part I consists of an introduction to the new language and a summary of the changes made to ALGOL 60, together with a discussion of the motives behind the revisions.Part II is a rigorous definition of the proposed language.Part III describes a set of proposed standard procedures to be used with the language, including facilities for input/output.
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SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language
Dahl, O.-J., & Nygaard, K. (1966) · Communications of the ACM · doi:10.1145/365813.365819 · Cited by 855
Ross, D. T. (1967) · Communications of the ACM · doi:10.1145/363534.363546 · Cited by 78
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- Authors
- Wirth, N., & Hoare, C. A. R.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1966-06
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 413-432
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2104274479
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- 222
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 20.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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