ALGOL 60 is defined partly by formal mechanisms of phrase structure grammar, partly by informally stated restrictions. It is shown that no formal mechanisms of the type used are sufficient to define ...

The dangling else problem consists of a class of potential ambiguities in ALGOL-like conditional statements whose basic form is “if B1 then if B2 then S1 else S2” where B1 and B2 are Boolean ...

In 1960, the ALGOL committee aimed to create a language for algorithm research, with ALGOL-58 preceding and quickly being replaced by ALGOL-60. Despite being relatively lesser known today compared to ...

ALGOL 68（源自英語：ALGOrithmic Language 1968的縮寫），一種指令式程式語言，為ALGOL家族的成員，是官方上的ALGOL 60後繼者。它設計的目標，是提供更廣泛的應用，以及更嚴格的語法定義。 ALGOL 68由IFIP Working Group 2.1（英语：IFIP ...

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The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean? Quantum entanglement links subatomic particles in a ...

Year of development: 1957 Developed by: John Backus, IBM Uses: Scientific computing, the basis for BASIC and ALGOL “Formula Translation”, or FORTRAN, was created by John Backus (through IBM ...

But let’s set the record straight: the age of 60 is not so much a boundary as it is a societal construct, arbitrarily dividing younger from older generations. The insights and advice that come with ...

By Alex Weprin Media & Business Writer CBS is planning to supercharge the long-running newsmagazine 60 Minutes for its 57th season, giving it additional time on the broadcast network and adding a ...