W060301a: Appreciating ALGOL 60

Status	Date	Description

	2006-03-15	Find any of the Turing Award Lectures on-line that I can.
	2006-03-15	See if I can scan in a version of the ALGOL 60 Report title block that doesn't run downhill so hard.
	2006-03-13	Acknowledge the kinds of bugs that remained in the initial ALGOL 60 and that were addressed later.
	2006-03-12	The notion of "ALGOL-like" languages and where ALGOL and its ilk vanished to.
	2006-03-12	Stratified strings and use for Universal Computation. The connection about computational-completeness of an abstract data representation, etc.
	2006-03-12	Algol W and other languages. The progression of languages and grammars and the use of railroad diagrams, as in the progression of Nicklaus Wirth contributions.
	2006-03-12	The treatment of arrays (not just subscripts) is also useful between Fortran and any other language that has arrays as first-class elements. The C Language and Java case as a counter-example.
	2006-03-12	For the idea of syntax and phrase-structure grammar, there is a background. And the idea of conceptual reuse (e.g., expressions for subscripts, etc.)
	2006-03-12	Language as an Instrument of Thought. BNF notation, the precision of the specification, and the concepts that we could test and explore as the result of this common reference about programming languages. Syntax-oriented translation.
	2006-03-12	Comment on the Report on the Algorithmic Language became a model, although semantics is often neglected in favor of syntax.
	2006-03-12	Use this to explain that Programs are Rarely Algorithms with the development of gcd versions. I can also redo the calculation of powers to make the connection between
done 0.60	2006-03-15	Link W060301c to the two blog posts on this topic so far.
done 0.60	2006-03-15	Make corrections noticed during live-checking the blog post derived from W060301c.htm. Fix the head title too.
done 0.50	2006-03-13	Update the site so that the material is available for reference from the Blog Post.
done 0.50	2006-03-13	W060301c: Import into W060301b as the only content available so far.
done 2006-03-13	2006-03-12	Beside the direct participation of Turing Award recipients, there are also those who contributed to ALGOL in some way that also received Turing Awards. Dijkstra, the Simula folk, and others come to mind. Also people who worked on compiler development and formal languages and other concepts that were fundamental to the programming-language side of computer science.
done 2006-03-13	2006-03-12	Character sets, input-output, and other difficulties. ALGOL is not a household name. The 1990 census visit.
done 2006-03-13	2006-03-12	W060301c: Use to emphasize the Turing Awards: The Citation and the title, the authors, the ALGOL contributors, and then secondary areas of important development
done 2006-03-13	2006-03-12	Tie in Anders Hjelberg having ALGOL as his first programming language. Maybe when we talk about where ALGOL vanished to.
done 2006-03-13	2006-03-12	Include a citation to the original full report, and then explain about the revised report. ~~Cover the revision as a correction of bugs in W060301c if not in another part on the rigor and precision.~~
done 2006-03-13	2006-03-12	Include Knuth's reminiscence of Bob Floyd.
done	2006-03-13	Post to the site to have placeholders present for any links I make on my blog.
done	2006-03-12	Link my 2004 blog post about finding this report in the Seattle Public Library in 1961.
done 2006-03-12	2006-03-11	Get the list of Turing Award recipients that had something to do with Algol.
done 2006-03-12	2006-03-11	Make a W060301b as the current-version insertion point
done	2006-03-11	Make a W060301c placeholder as we figure out how to get started here.
done	2006-03-11	Customize initial placeholders for W060301 and this diary.