Was Algol 60 the first algorithmic language?

DURNOVÁ, Helena a Gerhard ALBERTS. Was Algol 60 the first algorithmic language?. Online. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. IEEE Computer Society, 2014, roč. 36, č. 4, s. 104-106. ISSN 1058-6180. [citováno 2024-04-24]

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Was Algol 60 the first algorithmic language?
• Autoři: DURNOVÁ, Helena a Gerhard ALBERTS
• Vydání: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE Computer Society, 2014, 1058-6180.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Obor: 60101 History
• Stát vydavatele: Spojené státy
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• Impakt faktor: Impact factor: 0.217
• Organizační jednotka: Pedagogická fakulta
• UT WoS: 000346320000015
• Klíčová slova anglicky: ALGOL 60; algorithmic language
• Příznaky: Recenzováno

Anotace

The phrase "algorithmic language" is conspicuously associated with Algol, the acronym first used to name the programming language Algol 60, which originated through a cooperation between the ACM and German Association for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) groups of programming specialists. In the 1920s computing real things, solving messy equations, came to be called practical mathematics or numerical analysis, and the techniques to do so were called procedures, schemes, or Verfahren (in German). In the 1950s, however, the venerable notion of an "algorithm" allowed computer users, who were reflecting on developing computing procedures and transferring these to automatic machinery, describe what they thought they were "actually" doing. This article traces the use of the terms "algebraic" to "algorithmic" during the development of the programming language Algol.