Barry J. Mailloux

Numerical Solution of Differential Equations (1963)
On the implementation of ALGOL 68 (1969)

Academic advisorsAdriaan van WijngaardenNotable studentsChris Thomson

Barry James Mailloux (1940? – 26 May 1982) obtained his Master of Science (M.Sc.) in numerical analysis in 1963. From 1966, he studied at Amsterdam's Mathematisch Centrum under Adriaan van Wijngaarden, earning a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1968.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

He was the "first et al editor" of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, and the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68.^[5]

He was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1,^[6] which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.^[7]

In 1968, he returned to the University of Alberta as an assistant professor in the Department of Computing Science. His work on ALGOL 68 made the university a world center for ALGOL 68-related activity.

Mailloux's student Chris Thomson and friend Colin Broughton established Chion Corporation, which produced the Full Language Algol 68 Checkout Compiler (FLACC). FLACC proved Mailloux's contention that ALGOL 68 could indeed be implemented, contrary to the public complaints from some, such as Edsger Dijkstra.

References

^ Daniel Boulet (2002-10-10). "Barry J. Mailloux". everything2. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
^ Lindsey, C. H. A History of ALGOL 68.
^ Bergin, Thomas J.; Gibson, Richard G. (1996). History of Programming Languages. ACM Press. ISBN 0-201-89502-1.
^ Smillie, Keith (December 1990). The Department of Computing Science: The First Twenty-Five Years. University of Alberta.
^ van Wijngaarden, Adriaan; Mailloux, Barry James; Peck, John Edward Lancelot; Koster, Cornelis Hermanus Antonius; Sintzoff, Michel; Lindsey, Charles Hodgson; Meertens, Lambert Guillaume Louis Théodore; Fisker, Richard G., eds. (1976). Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 (PDF). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-07592-1. OCLC 1991170. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
^ Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (2016-08-17). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". Foswiki. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
^ Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2011-03-02). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". Foswiki. Retrieved 2020-09-06.

ALGOL programming

Implementations

Technical standards	ALGOL 58 ALGOL 60 ALGOL 68
Dialects	ABC ALGOL ALCOR ALGO ALGOL 68C ALGOL 68-R ALGOL 68RS (ELLA) ALGOL 68S ALGOL N ALGOL W ALGOL X Atlas Autocode (Edinburgh IMP) Burroughs ALGOL CORAL 66 Dartmouth ALGOL 30 DASK ALGOL DG/L Elliott ALGOL Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL) → New Executive Programming Language (NEWP) FLACC IMP JOVIAL Kidsgrove Algol MAD Mary NELIAC RTL/2 S-algol, PS-algol, Napier88 Simula Small Machine ALGOL Like Language (SMALL) SMIL ALGOL
Formalisms	Jensen's device Van Wijngaarden grammar

Community

Organizations

Professional associations	ALCOR Group Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) BSI Group Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC) International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
Business	Burroughs Corporation Elliott Brothers Regnecentralen
Education	Case Institute of Technology University of Edinburgh University of St Andrews Manchester University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Government	Royal Radar Establishment (RRE)

People

ALGOL 58

John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein
MAD	Bruce Arden Bernard Galler Robert M. Graham