Embracing the Algol Effort in Czechoslovakia

Author

Durnova, Helena

Author_Institution

Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic

Volume

36

Issue

4

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct.-Dec. 2014

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

37

Abstract

In the 1950s, Czechoslovakian computing was more famous for its fault-tolerant computers, SAPO and EPOS, than for developments in automatic programming. However, the Algol effort did not go unnoticed there. It was quite the contrary, even though its appeal to Czechoslovakian computer programmers only became manifest in their work after the publication of the preliminary report on the algorithmic language in 1958. The publication of the full Algol 60 report was well noted and the "Algol craze" spread quickly in Czechoslovakia. This article traces the history of programming methods and techniques in Czechoslovakia until the first Czechoslovakian Algol compiler in the early 1960s.

Keywords

ALGOL; fault tolerant computing; program compilers; Algol 60; Algol effort; Czechoslovakian Algol compiler; Czechoslovakian computer programmers; Czechoslovakian computing; EPOS; SAPO; algorithmic language; automatic programming; fault-tolerant computers; Automatic programming; Computer languages; Europe; History; Information processing; Program processors; Programming; Algol 60; EPOS Algol; SAPO computer; EPOS computer; history of computing; programming in Czechoslovakia;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAHC.2014.51

Filename

6982153