Elliott ALGOL is a compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60, for the Elliott 803 computer made by Elliott Brothers in the United Kingdom. It was implemented by Tony Hoare and others.[1] It differed slightly from the reference version of ALGOL, particularly in the supported character set.[2] First released in February 1962, it is believed to be the first implementation of an ALGOL 60 compiler in a commercial context and was an unexpectedly popular product for the company.[3]
| Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: procedural, imperative, structured |
|---|---|
| Family | ALGOL |
| Designed by | Tony Hoare, Jill Hoare and others |
| Developer | Elliott Brothers |
| First appeared | February 1962 |
| Typing discipline | Static, strong |
| Scope | Lexical (static) |
| Implementation language | Assembly |
| Platform | Elliott 803 |
| Influenced by | |
| ALGOL 60 | |
References
edit- ^ Hoare, Charles Antony Richard (27 October 1980). "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture" (PDF). Nashville, Tennessee: Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2 May 2021 – via Florida State University.
- ^ Baldwin, Tim (December 2013). "Elliot 803: The ALGOL Compiler". Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ Lavington, Simon (2011). Moving _targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947-67. Springer. pp. 283–287. ISBN 978-1848829329.
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