ALCOR

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ALCOR is an early computer language definition created by a consortium of manufactures formed to build an ALGOL machine after the ALGOL meeting in Copenhagen in 1958. ALCOR is an acronym, from ALGOL Converter.

ALCOR included an early "standard" character set for representing ALGOL 58 code on paper and paper tape:

• http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/DWcodes.html#A001
• http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/5tape.html#alcor

The character set included the unusual "᛭" (iron/runic cross) character and the "₁₀" (subscript/lower 10) character.

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• "The conceptual ALCOR machine had two stacks which were used for expression parsing and evaluation"