Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60

The Algol 60 Report. This is neither the preliminary report, nor the revised report.

J. W. Backus, F. L. Bauer, J. Green, C. Katz, J. McCarthy, A. J. Perlis, H. Rutishauser, K. Samelson, B. Vauquois, J. H. Wegstein, A. van Wijngaarden, M. Woodger, and Peter Naur. 1960. Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60. Communications of the ACM volume 3, issue 5 (May 1960), 299–314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/367236.367262

The purpose of the report was to develop a complete description of an international algorithmic language for expressing numerical processes in a form suitable for translation into computer programming languages.