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===Timeline=== {|class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" | Year || scope="col" |Event || scope="col" |Contributor |- | style="text-align:right;" | March 1959 || [[ALGOL Bulletin]] Issue 1 (First) || [[Peter Naur]] / [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] |- | style="text-align:right;" | February 1968 || Draft Report<sup>(DR)</sup> Published<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1064072.1064073|title=Draft Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68|first1=A.|last1=Van Wijngaarden|first2=B. J.|last2=Mailloux|first3=J.|last3=Peck|first4=C. H. A.|last4=Koster|date=1 March 1968|journal=ALGOL Bulletin|issue=Sup 26|pages=1β84|accessdate=7 April 2023|via=Mar. 1968}}</ref> || [[IFIP]] [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|Working Group 2.1]] |- | style="text-align:right;" | March 1968 || Algol 68 Final Report<sup>[[#The language of the unrevised report|r0]]</sup> Presented at Munich Meeting || IFIP Working Group 2.1 |- | style="text-align:right;" | June 1968 || Meeting in Tirrenia, Italy || IFIP Working Group 2.1 |- | style="text-align:right;" | Aug 1968 || Meeting in North Berwick, Scotland || IFIP Working Group 2.1 |- | style="text-align:right;" | December 1968 || ALGOL 68 Final Report<sup>[[#The language of the unrevised report|r0]]</sup> Presented at Munich Meeting || IFIP Working Group 2.1 |- | style="text-align:right;" | April 1970 || [[ALGOL 68-R]] under [[GEORGE (operating system)|GEORGE 3]] on an [[International Computers Limited|ICL]] [[ICT 1900 series|1907F]] || [[RSRE|Royal Signals and Radar Est.]] |- | style="text-align:right;" | July 1970 || ALGOL 68 for the [[Dartmouth Time-Sharing System]]<ref>Sidney Marshall, "ALGOL 68 Implementation", ''Proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation'', Munich, July 20β24, 1970, J. E. L. Peck, editor, North Holland, pages 239–243.</ref><ref>Sidney Marshall, ''On the implementation of ALGOL 68'', PhD Thesis, Dartmouth College, 1972.</ref> || Sidney Marshall |- | style="text-align:right;" | September 1973 || Algol 68 Revised Report<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130101062456/http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/report.html Algol 68 Revised Report]</ref><sup>[[#Revisions|r1]]</sup> Published || IFIP Working Group 2.1 |- | style="text-align:right;" | 1975 || [[ALGOL 68C]]<sup>(C)</sup> β transportable compiler (zcode [[virtual machine|VM]]) || [[Stephen R. Bourne|S. Bourne]], [[Andrew Birrell]], and [[Michael Guy (computer scientist)|Michael Guy]] |- | style="text-align:right;" | June 1975 || G. E. Hedrick and Alan Robertson. The Oklahoma State ALGOL 68 Subset Compiler. 1975 International Conference on ALGOL 68. |- | style="text-align:right;" | June 1977 || Strathclyde ALGOL 68 conference, Scotland || ACM |- | style="text-align:right;" | May 1978 || Proposals for ALGOL H β A Superlanguage of ALGOL 68<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1061701.1061711|title=Proposals for ALGOL H - A Superlanguage of ALGOL 68|first1=A. P.|last1=Black|first2=V. J.|last2=Rayward-Smith|date=1 May 1978|journal=ALGOL Bulletin|issue=42|pages=36β49|accessdate=7 April 2023|via=May. 1978}}</ref> || A. P. Black, V. J. Rayward-Smith |- | style="text-align:right;" | 1984 || Full [[ALGOL 68S]]<sup>(S)</sup> compiler for Sun, SPARC, and PCs || C. H. Lindsey et al, Manchester |- | style="text-align:right;" | August 1988 || [[ALGOL Bulletin]] Issue 52 (last) || Ed. C. H. Lindsey / ACM |- | style="text-align:right;" | May 1997 || Algol68 S<sup>(S)</sup> published on the internet<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/index.html#ALGOL%2068 |title=Algol68 S<sup>(S)</sup> published on the internet |access-date=2004-08-30 |archive-date=2005-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051203193706/http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/index.html#ALGOL%2068 |url-status=dead }}</ref> || [[Charles H. Lindsey]] |- | style="text-align:right;" | November 2001 || Algol 68 Genie<sup>(G)</sup> published on the internet<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html|title=The Algol 68 Genie project|first=Marcel van der|last=Veer|website=jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl|accessdate=7 April 2023}}</ref> (GNU GPL open source licensing) || [https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl Marcel van der Veer] |- |January 2025 |Algol 68 GCC Front-End published by Jose E. Marchesi under the GPL<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |[https://jemarch.net Jose E. Marchesi] |} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071217203826/http://npt.cc.rsu.ru/user/wanderer/ODP/ALGOL68.txt "A Shorter History of Algol 68"] <!-- retrieved 2011-06-14 --> * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110514113912/http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=311 ALGOL 68 β 3rd generation ALGOL] <!-- retrieved 2011-06-14 -->
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