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Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
The Algol 68 Genie project
2001-2026

The Algol 68 Genie project preserves Algol 68 out of educational as well as scientific-historical interest, by making available a fast, mature interpreter that runs on Linux, BSD and Windows 11. It comes with extensive documentation on both the language and the software …


Marcel van der Veer FORTRAN
The Vintage Fortran project
2020-2026

VIF is an experimental Fortran 66/77 compiler for Linux and BSD, offering multi-precision data types and an extensive numerical library …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
The end of an era
April 2026

Recently, a letter was delivered briefing me that remaining XS4ALL homepages will be taken offline. After thirty years, the time had come to migrate my website …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Snoopy calendar 1969-2025
January 2025

We make a Snoopy calendar from programmer's lore …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Chemometrics algorithms in the original Latin
August 2024

In the days before Python, how did one code machine learning algorithms …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Academic rite of passage
April 2023

A research project resembles a book or a movie, in the sense that it is never truly finished …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Message in a bottle
March 2023

Some time ago, a letter from the National Library of the Netherlands, a distinguished institute founded in 1798, was delivered in my mailbox …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Fortran - lingua franca with a promising future behind it
March 2022

I wrote a simple compiler that translates most Fortran IV/66/77 source code …


Marcel van der Veer TECH TIPS
VM/CMS and MVS/TSO reunited
October 2021

Virtualisation began half a century ago as a method of sharing mainframe resources between different operating systems, applications or users …


Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
Algol68C on MVS revisited
August 2018

As the author of Algol 68 Genie I am interested in having access to other Algol 68 compilers for reference purposes …


Marcel van der Veer ALGOL 68
Running Algol68C on MVS
October 2012

Recently, Algol68C Release 1.3039 was made public for download …


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