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From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Algol 68 info
Message-ID: <564@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Jan 90 10:40:04 GMT
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tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) writes:
>The recent "Late Bloomers..." thread talked a bit about Algol-68 and it's
>decendents.  Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or 
>any revised papers about Algol-68?

Unfortunately, most books written on ALGOL 68 are probably now out of print
(the few remaining copies of my own book which I recently advertised on the
net were soon snapped up). The one exception is probaly the "Guide to ALGOL 68
for users of RS Systems" by Woodward & Bond published in the UK by Edward
Arnold (ISBN 0 7131 3490 9). Another good place to look is "A Tutorial on
ALGOL 68 by A.S.Tanenbaum" in ACM Computing Surveys Vol 8 #2 June 1976 p155
(also Sept 1977 for errata).

If you want to dig into the legalities (not recommended for first comers), the
defining Report was in Acta Informatica Vol 5 #1,2,3 Dec 1975 and in Sigplan
Notices May 1977 (general permission to copyleft included). The CWI in
Amsterdam may have a few copies left for sale, and I still have a few
(poorish) microfiche copies left that went out with the ALGOL Bulletin once.