ACM-GAMM joint committee

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The ACM-GAMM joint committee was a collaborative group formed by the Association for Computing Machinery and the German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics to design and standardize the early high-level programming language ALGOL.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf collaborative committee
computer science committee
historical organization
standards committee
aimedAt creating a machine-independent programming language
facilitating exchange of algorithms between computers
areaOfImpact programming language design
programming language standardization
collaboratedWith Association for Computing Machinery NERFINISHED
German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics NERFINISHED
composition members from ACM
members from GAMM
country Germany NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
era early 1960s
late 1950s
field applied mathematics
computer science
numerical analysis
programming languages
formedBy Association for Computing Machinery NERFINISHED
German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics NERFINISHED
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik NERFINISHED
hasDomain algorithmic languages
scientific computing
historicalRole early international cooperation in programming language design
influenced C programming language NERFINISHED
Pascal NERFINISHED
high-level programming languages
structured programming
languageStandardized ALGOL NERFINISHED
ALGOL 58 NERFINISHED
ALGOL 60 NERFINISHED
mainWork design of ALGOL 58
design of ALGOL 60
notableContribution formal description of programming language syntax
promotion of algorithmic notation in scientific computing
notableWork Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 NERFINISHED
purpose to design the ALGOL programming language
to standardize the ALGOL programming language
relatedTo ALGOL 58 NERFINISHED
ALGOL 60 NERFINISHED
Backus–Naur form NERFINISHED
subjectOf histories of ALGOL
histories of programming languages

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ALGOL 58 designCommittee ACM-GAMM joint committee