ALGOL

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ALGOL (Algorithmic Language) was a programming language developed in the mid 1950s and often discussed in relation to humanities research applications, such as concordances or computational linguistics.

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Creator(s): Bauer, Bottenbruch, Rutishauser, Samelson, Backus, Katz, Perlis, Wegstein, Naur, Vauquois, van Wijngaarden, Woodger, Green, McCarthy

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Type of analysis: Programming
Type of license: Commercial
Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
Web Usable: Other
Ease of Use: Difficult
Usage: Widely Used
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation
TaDiRAH Methods: Programming

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Amy Dyrbye

For more information about ALGOL in relation to humanities research, please see the following articles:

\"New Courses Established.\" Computers and the Humanities 3.5 (1969): 270-271. Web.

Burnard, L.D. \"Software Review: CLOC.\" Computers and the Humanities 14.4 (1980): 259-260. Web.

Hanon, Suzanne. \"The Study of English Loan-Words in Modern French.\" Computers and the Humanities 7.6 (1973): 389-398. Web.

Raskin, Jeffrey F. \"Programming Languages for the Humanities.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.3 (1971): 155-158. Web.

Raskin, Jeffrey F. \"Request for Algorithms.\" Computers and the Humanities 4.3 (1970): 219. Web.

Wachal, Robert S. \"The Machine in the Garden: Computers and literary scholarship, 1970.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.1 (1970): 23-28. Web.

Wachal, Robert S. \"Uphill Introduction.\" Computers and the Humanities 4.3 (1970) 205-207. Web.

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