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Marcel van der Veer Digital heritage
The end of an era
April 2026

Recently, a letter was delivered that I knew would arrive some day …


Marcel van der Veer Technology
Wonderful WiFi World
November 2024

Nowadays your WiFi password is one of the first things asked for …


Marcel van der Veer Essays
Veldpost Utrecht
February 2024

On a bleak midwinter morning, I reported at the Isabella kazerne in Vught …


Marcel van der Veer Algol 68
A perspective of Algol 68
March 2023

To better understand the position of Algol 68 among today’s plethora of programming languages, we should consider their development …


Marcel van der Veer Digital heritage
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 Technology
Building a small Beowulf cluster II
April 2018

As described in an earlier post, at home I operate a modest Beowulf type cluster for embarrassingly parallel simulation runs in batch mode …


Marcel van der Veer Algol 68
A brief history of Algol 68 Genie
November 2016

Being the author of Algol 68 Genie, people frequently ask me why a physical chemist wrote an Algol 68 compiler …


Marcel van der Veer Technology
Building a small Beowulf cluster
October 2016

At home I operate a modest Beowulf type cluster for embarrassingly parallel simulation runs in batch mode …


Marcel van der Veer Algol 68
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68
September 2008

This is the Revised Report in HTML, for distribution with Algol 68 Genie …



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