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@Article{Lindsey:1993:HA,
  author =       "C. H. Lindsey",
  title =        "A history of {ALGOL} 68",
  journal =      j-SIGPLAN,
  volume =       "28",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "97--132",
  month =        mar,
  year =         "1993",
  CODEN =        "SINODQ",
  ISSN =         "0362-1340 (print), 1523-2867 (print), 1558-1160 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0362-1340",
  bibdate =      "Sun Dec 14 09:16:34 MST 2003",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/; http://www.acm.org/pubs/toc/",
  URL =          "http://www.acm.org:80/pubs/citations/proceedings/plan/154766/p97-lindsey/",
  abstract =     "ALGOL 68 is a language with a lot of `history'. The
                 reader will hear of discord, resignations, unreadable
                 documents, a minority report, and all manner of
                 politicking. But although ALGOL 68 was produced by a
                 committee (and an unruly one at that), the language
                 itself is no camel. Indeed, the rigorous application of
                 the principle of ``orthogonality'' makes it one of the
                 cleanest languages around, as I hope to show. Moreover,
                 when the language came to be revised, the atmosphere
                 was quite different, enabling a much more robust and
                 readable defining document to be produced in a spirit
                 of true cooperation. There are some lessons here for
                 future language design efforts, but I am not optimistic
                 that they have been learned.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  classification = "C6140D (High level languages)",
  confdate =     "20-23 April 1993",
  conflocation = "Cambridge, MA, USA",
  confname =     "HOPL-II. The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History
                 of programming languages, April 20--23, 1993,
                 Cambridge, MA",
  confsponsor =  "ACM",
  keywords =     "ALGOL 68; algorithms; History; human factors;
                 languages; Orthogonality; standardization",
  subject =      "{\bf D.3.2} Software, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, Language
                 Classifications, ALGOL-68. {\bf K.2} Computing Milieux,
                 HISTORY OF COMPUTING, People. {\bf H.1.2} Information
                 Systems, MODELS AND PRINCIPLES, User/Machine Systems,
                 Human factors. {\bf K.2} Computing Milieux, HISTORY OF
                 COMPUTING, Software. {\bf D.3.3} Software, PROGRAMMING
                 LANGUAGES, Language Constructs and Features,
                 Procedures, functions, and subroutines.",
  thesaurus =    "ALGOL; History",
}

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