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*Dec. 1968: Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 - Offprint from Numerische Mathematik, 14, 79-218 (1969); Springer-Verlag. - Edited by: A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Mailloux, J.E.L. Peck and C.H.A. Koster.
*Sep 1973: Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68 - Springer-Verlag 1976 - Edited by: A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Mailloux, J.E.L. Peck, C.H.A. Koster, M. Sintzoff, C.H. Lindsey, L.G.L.T. Meertens and R.G. Fisker.
==Coding style of samples, alphabets and stropping==
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<br><br>'''Alphabets'''
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Notionally, Algol 68 source is written in two alphabets. The reserved words, mode indicants (type names) and operators that are non-symbolic (.e.g. '''and''', '''or''', ...) are generally referred to as "bold words" and usually shown in a bold font in literature. Words that are identifiers (used for "variable" names, procedure names, structure member names, ...) are in a separate, non-bold font.<br>
The [https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/manual/a68s.txt/view Manual for CMU ALGOL 68S (on softwarepreservation.org)] refers to the non-bold words as being in timid face.
<br><br>'''Examples of different program representations'''
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At the time when ALGOL 68 was defined some predominant computers had
24 or 36 bit words, with 6 bit character sets. Hence it was desirable that
ALGOL 68 should be able to run on machines with only uppercase.
As multiple fonts were generally unavailable, a method of identifying the bold words was required.<br>
The official spec provided for different representations of the same
program.
and Point stropping (preceeding the bold words with a dot)
were used.<br>
In RES stropping some language-defined bold words are not preceded by a dot.
A pragmatic comment may have been required to indicate which
stropping convention was to be used, as in some of the examples below.<br>
Upper stropping (representing the bold words by upper case and
non-bold words in lower case) was introduced by Algol 68R.
Upper stropping is used by Algol 68RS and is one of the options for Algol 68G.<br>
Rutgers ALGOL 68 uses quote stropping.
Most of the samples on Rosetta Code use Upper stropping.<br><br>
Examples (pragmatic comments to set the stropping regime not shown):
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