 By 1955, the PERM was completed and they continued work that Bauer had begun in 1951 on concepts in automatic programming.Samelson played a key role in the design of ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60.In 1958, he accepted a chair for Mathematics at the University of Mainz, and since 1963 he held a chair at the Technical University Munich where he and F.L.