By Marcel van der Veer January 2016
Published in Science More on Chemistry, Physics
Digital version (extended) of Marcel's 1992 doctorate thesis.
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 …