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The making of Algol 68

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Koster, C.H.A. (1996). The making of Algol 68. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Pottosin, I.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62064-8_6

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