ALGOL 68 - Timeline of ALGOL 68

Timeline of ALGOL 68

Year Event Contributor
Mar 1959 ALGOL Bulletin Issue 1 (First) Peter Naur / ACM
Feb 1968 Draft Report(DR) Published IFIP Working Group 2.1
Mar 1968 Algol 68 Final Report(FR) Presented at Munich Meeting IFIP Working Group 2.1
Jun 1968 Meeting in Tirrenia, Italy IFIP Working Group 2.1
Aug 1968 Meeting in North Berwick, Scotland IFIP Working Group 2.1
Dec 1968 Algol 68 Final Report(FR) Presented at Munich Meeting IFIP Working Group 2.1
Apr 1970 ALGOL 68R(R) under GEORGE 3 on an ICL 1907F. Royal Signals and Radar Est.
Sep 1973 Revised Report (RR)Published IFIP Working Group 2.1
1975 ALGOL 68C(C) - transportable compiler (zcode VM) S. Bourne, Andrew Birrell, and Michael Guy
Jun 1977 Strathclyde ALGOL 68 conference, Scotland ACM
May 1978 Proposals for ALGOL H - A Superlanguage of ALGOL 68 A. P. Black, V. J. Rayward-Smith
1984 Full ALGOL 68S(S) compiler for Sun, SPARC, and PCs C.H.Lindsey ea, Manchester
Aug 1988 ALGOL Bulletin Issue 52 (last) Ed. C. H. Lindsey / ACM
May 1997 Algol68 S(S) published on the internet Charles H. Lindsey
Nov 2001 ALGOL 68G(G) released (GNU GPL open source licensing) Marcel van der Veer
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