S-algol

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Aliases: St Andrews Algol
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Sources mentioning this language

4 sources · pl_id: pl/s-algol
LLM (this repo) · 1PldbWikipediaWikidata · Q7387092

Wikipedia infobox ↗

Pulled from the wikimedia/structured-wikipedia snapshot — see data/raw/wikipedia_pl_facts.*.jsonl and pl_fact.csv for the long-table provenance.

Paradigmsmulti-paradigm: procedural · imperative · structured
Designed byUniversity of St Andrews · Ron Morrison · Tony Davie
First appeared1979
Influenced byALGOL 60
Implemented inS-algol

Related languages

SASL (0.29)SMALGOL (0.29)PS-algol (0.25)GIER ALGOL (0.21)ALGOL-T (0.21)

Real programs from Software Heritage

No SWH evidence indexed yet for this language. (Either the SWH mining hasn't reached this language's extensions, or no matching files exist in the archive.)

Programs collected by LLM agents experimental · unverified

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Towers of Hanoi in S-algol

Provenance: commit 8fc3b39ec7 · authored 2025-11-12T10:17:00+01:00 · model google/gemini-2.5-pro · Temp 0.4
code.sal · added: 2025-11-12T09:17:00Z
! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
! 
! Towers of Hanoi
! 
! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

let read.a.disc = proc( string s -> int )
begin
    write "type number of discs for ", s, ": "
    let d = readi
    if d < 0 or d > 10 do
    begin
        write "number must be in range 0..10\n"
        0
    end
    else d
end

let hanoi = proc( int n, from, to, using )
! move n discs from tower 'from' to tower 'to' using tower 'using'
begin
    if n > 0 do
    begin
        hanoi( n - 1, from, using, to )
        write n, " from ", from, " to ", to, "\n"
        hanoi( n - 1, using, to, from )
    end
end

let discs = read.a.disc( "Hanoi" )
if discs ~= 0 do hanoi( discs, 1, 3, 2 )

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