Interesting site, some observations.

[Neville Dempsey]

I test drove you site for about 30 minutes. It certainly is going in
the right direction and will get more content with time.

My observations:

A) Links like: http://progopedia.com/language/

Returns: Page not found: Looks like you followed a bad link. If you
think it's our fault, please let us know: ad...@progopedia.com. You
can try to find what you want from Main Page. Or use site search form
(in the left column).

You may want to add a landing point here. (I am expert enough to know
what CMS engine you are using under the hood)

B) It would be nice to have a preview button, so I can view the draft.

C) I suspect that I cam embed HTML in the documents. Being able to
switch into HTML edit mode would be cool.

I have not figured out how to add some code samples yet.... I will get
there, especially if I can do selected language comparisons.

I have some other ideas, but won't burden you I imagine that you have
a ToDo list as long as my arm.

Cheers
NevilleDNZ

[Sergey Dimchenko]

Thanks for your suggestions! We really want more feedback. And sorry
for late answer.

As for your observations.

A). Yes, I plan to put list of all languages at http://progopedia.com/language/,
list of all versions at http://progopedia.com/version/ and so on.

B). I don't know right now the good way to implement preview, but I'll
think about it. For now you can just preview on site - you always can
correct or even delete your unsuccessful attempts.

C). We chose to use markdown - http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
- as mark-up language. Raw html can be source of XXS (cross-site
scripting) attacks. Markdown is also very easy after short learning
period.

Only one thing about markdown I found very unintuitive in the past -
you have to insert blank line before list of it will not work. I
edited your article about algol68 to fix that issue.

And yes, we have long TODO lists ('global' TODO list has 162 lines
right now), but ideas are always welcomed.

[Nickolas]

A note about articles structure: we consider Algol W, 58, 60 and 68 to
be dialects of single language Algol, not separate languages.

[Neville Dempsey]

Hi Nickolas

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 23:31 -0800, Nickolas wrote:
> A note about articles structure: we consider Algol W, 58, 60 and 68
> to
> be dialects of single language Algol, not separate languages.

Interesting... I had not test driven the dialect button. And - although
obvious now - at the time I wasn't thinking of Algol68 as dialect of
Algol60.

In the following examples you will spot various similarities &
differences. AFAICS based on their actual syntax, the C programming
language could be a dialect of Algol68, and Algol60 could be a dialect
of Fortran.

Compare:
PROGRAM FLOATING POINT TEST
REAL A,B,C,D

READ *,D

DO 1, A = 0.0, 6.3, D
PRINT *
B = SIN(A)
C = COS(A)
PRINT '(3(F9.6:X)$)',A,B,C
1 CONTINUE
PRINT *
END

FLOATING POINT TEST;
BEGIN REAL A,B,C,D;
PRINT PUNCH(3),'Enter d:'
READ D;

FOR A:= 0.0 STEP D UNTIL 6.3 DO
BEGIN
PRINT PUNCH(3),££L??;
B := SIN(A);
C := COS(A);
PRINT PUNCH(3),SAMELINE,ALIGNED(1,6),A,B,C;
END'
END'

floating point test:
(
real a,b,c,d;

printf(($pg$,"Enter d:"));
readf(($g$,d));

for step from 0 while a:=step*d; a <= 2*pi do
printf($l$);
b := sin(a);
c := cos(a);
printf(($z-d.6d$,a,b,c))
od
)

floating_point_test()
{
int step;
float a,b,c,d;

printf("%s","Enter d:");
scanf("%f",&d);

for(step = 0; a=step*d, a <= 2*M_PI; step++){
printf("\n");
b = sin(a);
c = cos(a);
printf("%.6f %.6f %.6f",a,b,c);
}
printf("\n");
}

{I confess that I did the Algol68 in lower case to exasperate the
difference.}

Algol60 was inspired by Fortran, and used BNF - a 1 level grammar - to
define the syntax. Algol68 was inspired by Algol60 but used vW-grammar -
a 2 level grammar - to define syntax.

Algol60, AlgolW, Pascal, Modula and Oberon are defined with BNF and have
a common syntax. Algol68, Prologue are defined with vW-grammar and are
very different.

Basically, there was a significant fork in the Algol language tree.
Can I suggest an Algol60 dialect branch, and a Algol68 dialect branch?

See also: The comprehensive history of the project is C.H. Lindsey's "A
History of ALGOL 68" - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155365

And: C.H.A. Koster's "The Making of Algol 68" can be found at
http://www.cs.ru.nl/~kees/home/papers/psi96.pdf

You will see a greater divergence accompanied the syntax divergence.

Enjoy
NevilleDNZ