Bibliographic records of Algol 68

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> I spent part of the weekend collecting from our extensive archives
> information about the history of Algol 68 into two new bibliographies
> released today:
>
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/algol68.bib
>
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/algol-bulletin.bib

I have linked both in https://algol68-lang.org/resources, both .bib and
.html versions.

Thank you!

> As always in our archives at Utah, you can change the final ".bib" to
> ".html" if you prefer a Web browser view with live hyperlinks.  The
> BibTeX ".bib" file is the definitive source, and the companion "*.ltx"
> LaTeX files demonstrate that the entries can be successfully typeset.
>
> The first bibliography has entries for the Algol 68 language, some of
> which are about its predecessors and origins going back to 1959.
>
> I have not yet searched library catalogs for additional books about
> the language (14 books are currently recorded), but a check today with
> the US Library of Congress catalog found 38 books with Algol 68 their
> titles, so there will certainly be additions to algol68.bib.
>
> For about two years, I have had a copy of PDF files for past issues of
> the Algol Bulletin, but for reasons discussed in the comment preamble
> of algol-bulletin.bib, I have not been able to effectively mine those
> PDF files to create a complete journal bibliography.
>
> Our existing archives held 39 references to the journal, and my
> weekend searches turned up more, so there are now 476 entries in that
> file.  That is by no means complete coverage, because the Algol
> Bulletin has many short communications that are unlikely to have
> received direct citations by articles in other sources, and thus,
> might already be in a form for which rough BibTeX entries could be
> created from Web data.
>
> I hope that some algol68 list readers may find the bibliographies
> useful.  The algol68.bib contains a 250-line comment preamble that
> describes something of the project, and for readers unfamiliar with
> the Algol language family, offers a list of Algol features that have
> been adopted, or have influenced, later programming languages.
>
> Comments and corrections are hereby solicited, and welcomed, from list
> readers, and may be incorporated in future versions of these files.
>
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>
> P.S. The BibNet Project archives contain author-specific
> bibliographies for some of the people involved in the Algol family
> language design, and its uses:
>
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/b/bauer-friedrich-ludwig.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/d/dijkstra-edsger-w.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/f/forsythe-george-elmer.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/g/golub-gene-h.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/h/hansen-per-brinch.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/h/hoare-c-a-r.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/h/householder-alston-s.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/r/reinsch-christian-h.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/s/stiefel-eduard.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/w/wilkes-maurice-v.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/w/wilkinson-james-hardy.bib
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/w/wirth-niklaus.bib
>
> Those bibliographies strive for complete coverage of the works of
> their authors, and also cover publications by others about them and
> their works.  For many of them, however, it has not been possible to
> find copies of the authors' own curriculum vitae to check against.
> Contributed chapters in books, letter correspondence, public talks,
> and technical reports, frequently fail to be recorded in library
> catalogs.  Nevertheless, those "*.bib" files provide publication
> records that have been recorded over decades of bibliographic work,
> and they still get occasional updates.
>
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