AbstractThe ALGOL 68‐R system has been in successful use for over a year at the Royal Radar Establishment. The paper describes how ALGOL 68 came to be implemented for the ICL 1900 Series and adopted as the standard user language of the RRE computing service. The language can easily be learned as a modification and extension to ALGOL 60, but is best approachedab initio. The paper outlines all the main characteristics of ALGOL 68, including a brief section on independent compilation of program segments as provided in the ALGOL 68‐R system. The future of ALGOL 68 depends on how acceptable it proves to be; to judge from experience to date, there are no grounds for lack of confidence in the design of the language or the feasibility of implementat
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