Jaap Zonneveld

"Jaap" Zonneveld (2 June 1924 – 22 December 2016) was a Dutch programmer who, with Edsger W. Dijkstra, wrote the first ALGOL 60 compiler. Zonneveld's interest

surname include: Ani Zonneveld (born 1962), Malaysian-American singer Ben Zonneveld (born 1940), Dutch plant scientist Jaap A. Zonneveld (1924-2016), Dutch

first complete working ALGOL 60 compiler, completed by Dijkstra and Jaap Zonneveld. In 1965, the X1 was superseded by the X8. Electrologica was taken over

taking credit for the work of others), scientists Edsger W. Dijkstra and Jaap Zonneveld agreed to not shave until they completed the Electrologica ALGOL 60

for the programming language ALGOL 60 in conjunction with colleague Jaap A. Zonneveld. In 1962 he moved to Eindhoven, and later to Nuenen, where he became