NELIAC (Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler) is a programming language and self-compiling compiler developed by the US Navy Electronics Laboratory beginning in 1958, an early dialect of ALGOL 58 adapted for military and scientific computing. NELIAC was notable for being one of the earliest compilers written in its own source language, a self-hosting, bootstrapped compiler, and for being ported across a wide range of incompatible naval and military computer architectures during the 1960s, carrying its influence into later structured-programming practice within US defense computing circles.
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First Released Paradigmprocedural, imperative, structured 1 SignificanceDesigned for numeric and logical computations and the first language to provide a bootstrap implementation. 1 NELIAC
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NELIAC (Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler) is a dialect of ALGOL 58.
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The Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler (NELIAC) is a dialect and compiler implementation of the programming language ALGOL 58, developed by the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL) in 1958.
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procedural, imperative, structured
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It was designed for numeric and logical computations and was the first language to provide a bootstrap implementation.
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