Cyrillic alphabet of the Soviet BESM-4. All ALGOL's characters are also part of the Unicode standard and most of them are available in several popular fonts. 2009 October: Unicode – The ⏨ (Decimal Exponent Symbol) for floating point notation was added to Unicode 5.2 for backward compatibility with historic Buran programme ALGOL software. See also References Further reading Brian Randell and L. J. Russell, ALGOL 60 Implementation: The Translation and Use of ALGOL 60 Programs on a Computer. Academic Press, 1964. The design of the Whetstone Compiler. One of the early published descriptions of implementing a compiler. See the related papers: Whetstone Algol Revisited, and The Whetstone KDF9 Algol Translator by Brian Randell Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60 by Peter Naur, et al. ALGOL definition "The European Side of the Last Phase of the Development of ALGOL 60" by Peter Naur External links History of ALGOL at the Computer History Museum Web enabled ALGOL-F compiler for small experiments An online ALGOL compiler ALGOL 60 dialect Articles with example ALGOL 60 code Computer-related introductions in 1958 Procedural programming languages Programming languages created in 1958 Structured programming languages Systems programming languages