This web-site is dedicated to:


Konrad Zuse (1910 - 1995) (Germany)

Heinz Rutishauser (1918 - 1970) (Switzerland) (program block structure)

Friedrich Bauer (1924 - ) (Germany) (Stack)

Klaus Samelson (1918 - 1980) (Germany)

Hermann Bottenbruch (19?? - ) (Germany)

Peter Naur (1928 - ) (Denmark)

Alan Perlis (1922 - 1990) (USA)

And all other Algol 60 creators


This web-site is also dedicated to creators of AlgolW language:

Niklaus Wirth (1934 - ) (Switzerland)

C.A.R. (Tony) Hoare (1934 - ) (England) (data structure or record)

AlgolW was very important step in the process of programming language development. It was father of Pascal language.

If they make AlgolW as extension of Algol60, now everybody will program using AlgolW extension


We never forget developers of first Algol translators:

Edsger Dijkstra(1930 - 2002) (Netherlands)

Jorn Jensen (1925 - 2007) (Denmark)

Thomas Kurtz (1928 - ) (USA)

Brian Randell (1936 - ) (Great Britain)

Lawford Russell (1934 - ) (Great Britain)

Johann Joss (1944 - ) (Switzerland)

and others

They developed great translators on computers with 10-16 kilowords (!!!) of memory.