Automatic computing has undergone drastic changes since the pioneering days of the early Fifties, one of the most obvious being that today the majority of computer programs are no longer written in machine code but in some programming language like FORTRAN or ALGOL.

I Introduction.- § 1. The Concept of Automatic Programming.- § 2. Historical Remarks on Algorithmic Languages.- § 3. The Algol Conferences of 1958, 1960, 1962.- § 4. Algol Dialects and the IFIP Subset of Algol 60.- § 5. Preliminary Definition of Algol.- II Basic Concepts.- § 6. Auxiliary Conventions.- § 7. The Basic Symbols of Algol.- § 8. Values.- § 9. Quantities and their Names.- § 10. Numerical Constants.- § 11. Labels.- § 12. Strings.- § 13. Comments.- III Expressions.- § 14. Variables.- § 15. Function Designators.- § 16. Simple Arithmetic Expressions.- § 17. Relations.- § 18. Simple Boolean Expressions.- § 19. Conditional Expressions.- § 20. Subscript Expressions.- IV Statements.- § 21. Assignment Statements.- § 22. Sequences of Statements.- § 23. Labelled Statements.- § 24. The Dummy Statement.- § 25. Goto-Statements.- § 26. Procedure Statements I.- § 27. Compound Statements and Blocks.- § 28. The If-Statement.- § 29. The If-Else-Statement.- § 30. The For-Statement.- V Miscellaneous Applications.- § 31. Algebraic Problems.- § 32. Interpolation and Numerical Quadrature.- § 33. Numerical Integration of Differential Equations.- § 34. Least Square Problems.- §35. Computations Related to Continued Fractions.- § 36. Considerations Concerning Computer Limitations.- §37. Data Processing Applications.- VI Declarations.- § 38. Type Declarations.- § 39. Array Declarations.- § 40. Switch Declarations.- § 41. Procedure Declarations I.- §42. Semantics of Blocks.- §43. Entire Programs.- VII Procedures.- § 44. Procedure Declarations II.- §45. Procedure Statements II.- § 46. Function Procedures and their Use.- § 47. Code Procedures.- § 48. Parameter Procedures.- VIII Input and Output.- § 49. The Standard I/O-Procedures of Algol.- §50. Applications of Procedures insymbol, outsymbol.- §51. Use of inarray, outarray for Auxiliary Storage.- Appendix A.- § 52. The Jensen Device.- 52.1. The full name-concept.- 52.2. The Jensen device.- 52.3. Bound variables.- § 53. Conclusion.- 53.1. Church’s lambda notation.- 53.2. The lambda notation for arrays.- 53.3. Syntax of the proposed extension.- 53.4. Semantics of the proposed extension.- 53.5. Applications of the proposed extension.- Appendix B. The IFIP-Reports on Algol.- References.

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