Algol

Algol is a programming language created in 1958.

ALGOL (short for Algorithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages, originally developed in the mid-1950s, which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years. In the sense that the syntax of most modern languages is "Algol-like", it was arguably the most influential of the four high-level programming languages among which it was roughly contemporary: FORTRAN, Lisp, and COBOL. It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and eventually gave rise to many other programming languages, including PL/I, Simula, BCPL, B, Pascal, and C. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Early development of Algol happened in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• Explore Algol snippets on Rosetta Code
• Algol on HOPL
• Algol appears in the TIOBE Index
• See also: (29 related languages) PL/I, Simula, BCPL, B, Pascal, C, Lisp, COBOL, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 60, ALGOL 68, ALGOL W, Scheme, ML, Elliott ALGOL, JOVIAL, Ada, ACT-III, S-algol, Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language, NEWP, ASCII, ALCOR, Unicode, Atlas Autocode, CORAL, Edinburgh IMP, ISWIM, NELIAC