ALGOL 60, short for Algorithmic Language 1960, is a programming language in the ALGOL family that built on the earlier ALGOL 58 by introducing structured code blocks with lexical scoping. It was designed by an international committee whose members included John Backus, Friedrich Bauer, Peter Naur, Alan Perlis and John McCarthy among others, and it was among the first languages to support recursive function definitions with nested, block scoped procedures. ALGOL 60's block structure and formal syntax description strongly shaped the design of later procedural languages including Pascal, Simula and C, and the report describing it introduced Backus-Naur Form as a standard way to specify a language's grammar.
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Source Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: CPL
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Source Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: CPL
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1. ALGOL 60 (Wikipedia)
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1960
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Static, strong
In Group: Structured Programming Languages, Lead
ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them, representing a key advance in the rise of structured programming.
View the SourceFree On-line Dictionary of Computing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: CPL
Free On-line Dictionary of ComputingInfluenced: CPL (programming language), FOLDOC CPL entry
with syntax based on ALGOL 60
Predecessor Of: CPL (programming language), FOLDOC CPL entry
with syntax based on ALGOL 60
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