ALGOL 60 was the first programming language to be designed completely from the bottom-up by computer scientists. It came about in large part because IBM, the owner of the FORTRAN programming language that was created in 1957, refused to relinquish...

The Algol-60 report was written between 1959 and 1960 by a team of programming language experts consisting of editor Peter Naur and several educators and practitioners from Europe and the United States. The purpose of the report was to develop a...

ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages, and became the de facto way algorithms were described in text-books and...

Nearly everyone enjoys looking at the stars. For most of us, the brightest ones get all the attention. Rigel blazes on cold winter evenings. On hazy summer nights, Vega sparkles like a diamond. But a star doesn't have to be bright to...