Thanks for the New Year gift; asking about plans and Ershov's views on van Wijngaarden's proposals concerning a universal programming language

The authors support the suggestion to hold WG 2.1.for the discussion of the report on Algol X

Author constructively criticizes Mr.Bemer's article which is "for the most part devoted to the political history of ALGOL in the USA rather than the scientific history of ALGOL in the computational world" as well as expresses his opinion about papers of Brown and Sanderson.

Author gives detailed comments on the Bob Bemer's article.

In reply to the letter of November 2: the list of British scientists who know Ershov reasonably well

to the English edition of the Input language specification

Thanks for Ershov's consent to participate in the IFIP Congress preparation; discussion of Ershov's critical remarks to the Programme

Reply to the letter of 28 March. Author continues discussion of the Bemer's paper "History of ALGOL". They will have to choose between publishing it with the title changed and rejecting it.

received by Ershov as a member of the Algol Working Group. The author agrees with N.Wirth's letter of March 2 and supports his proposal for cancellation of the neeting in Warsaw. On the other hand he is outraged with the way it was done and states his point of view

Account of the works on the ALPHA compiler; notification of the change of address because of the Computing Center's becoming a separate institution

received by Ershov as a member of the Algol Working Group. The author proposes not to cancel the meeting but to change the agenga

reminding the addressee of the promised letter with instructions; answering a question about translation of the example program; request to explain the current meaning of the term "bootstrapping"

Duscussion of dynamic substitution in compilers, and the term "bootstrapping" and the meaning of some abbreviations