ALGOL (Algorithmic Language) is a family of imperative programming languages developed in 1958 through international collaboration among European and American computer scientists. It introduced influential concepts including begin-end code blocks, nested functions with lexical scope, and a formal method for defining language syntax, and for decades served as the standard notation in which algorithms were published in academic literature. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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First Released ParadigmProcedural, imperative and structured; specified by an international committee rather than a single designer. 1 SignificanceIntroduced Backus-Naur Form for formal grammar specification and directly influenced the design of PL/I, Simula, Pascal, C and Scheme; served as the standard language for publishing algorithms in academic computer science literature. 1 ALGOL
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NELIAC (Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler) is a dialect of ALGOL 58.
Source Wikipedia: Pascal (programming language)
Source Wikipedia: Scheme (programming language)
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ALGOL 68 "was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 language." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68
General knowledge, not independently re-fetched: Niklaus Wirth and C.A.R. Hoare designed ALGOL W (1966) as a proposed evolutionary successor to ALGOL 60, before the ALGOL 68 committee took a more radical direction.
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Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors.
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Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced: Pascal, Lead paragraph, on ALGOL 60 patternView the Source Wikipedia: Scheme (programming language)
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The impetus to incorporate lexical scoping... came from Sussman's studies of ALGOL.
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