By Marcel van der Veer November 2013
Published in Genealogy More on Essays, Genealogy
Essay investigating the origin of Marcel's surname Van der Veer, by exploring his Frisian father line back to the 16th century.
A research project resembles a book or a movie, in the sense that it is never truly finished …
To better understand the position of Algol 68 among today’s plethora of programming languages, we should consider their development …
Recently, a letter from the National Library of the Netherlands, a distinguished institute founded in 1798, was delivered in my mailbox …
Throughout our lives interesting persons cross our paths and I am grateful to have been in their company …
A recent study suggests that during the last decades less and less groundbreaking scientific discoveries were made …
Hardly anyone will dispute that Einstein's general theory of relativity is well established now …
Did you, like me, have to learn linear regression the hard way during your education, by means of tedious calculus …
In the eighties, science undergraduates like me took a course in structured programming at the computer science department …
There are many recipes around to convert an obsolete PC into a DIY NAS for use on a Windows-machine network …
I have released the current source as version 3.0. I have also updated the documentation, Learning Algol 68 Genie …
Virtualisation began half a century ago as a method of sharing mainframe resources between different operating systems, applications or users …
As the author of Algol 68 Genie I am interested in having access to other Algol 68 compilers for reference purposes …
Lately I needed to call on some of my now rusty electronics skills since I came into some older HiFi equipment in need of attention …
As described in an earlier post, at home I operate a modest Beowulf type cluster for embarrassingly parallel simulation runs in batch mode …
Every year my daughter's high school invites parents to partake in an evening of information sessions, to help students orient themselves on their future …
Recently I met during an event at my Alma Mater, the University of Nijmegen, my high school physics teacher …
Being the author of Algol 68 Genie, people frequently ask me why a physical chemist wrote an Algol 68 compiler …
At home I operate a modest Beowulf type cluster for embarrassingly parallel simulation runs in batch mode …
Digital version (extended) of Marcel's 1992 doctorate thesis …
Essay investigating the origin of Marcel's surname …
Recently, Algol68C Release 1.3039 was made public for download …
I have posted Algol 68 Genie Version 2.0.0 and its documentation …
This is a translation of the Algol 68 Revised Report into HTML, for distribution with Algol 68 Genie, an Open Source Algol 68 interpreter …
Algol 68 was conceived as a successor to Algol 60 …
