Detailed Information on Publication Record
2014
Embracing the Algol Effort in Czechoslovakia
DURNOVÁ, HelenaBasic information
Original name
Embracing the Algol Effort in Czechoslovakia
Authors
DURNOVÁ, Helena (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE Computer Society, 2014, 1058-6180
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
60101 History
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 0.217
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14410/14:00079156
Organization unit
Faculty of Education
UT WoS
000346320000003
Keywords in English
EPOS Algol; history of computing; Algol 60; programming in Czechoslovakia; SAPO computer; EPOS computer
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 26/2/2019 16:49, Dana Nesnídalová
Abstract
V originále
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.