Detailed Information on Publication Record
2014
Was Algol 60 the first algorithmic language?
DURNOVÁ, Helena and Gerhard ALBERTSBasic information
Original name
Was Algol 60 the first algorithmic language?
Authors
DURNOVÁ, Helena and Gerhard ALBERTS
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
Organization unit
Faculty of Education
UT WoS
000346320000015
Keywords in English
ALGOL 60; algorithmic language
Tags
Reviewed
Změněno: 26/2/2019 16:51, Dana Nesnídalová
Abstract
V originále
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.