ALGOL
Sign in to saveALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years.
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ALGOL is a family of computer programming languages created in 1958 that allowed programmers to write instructions for computers in a more readable, standardized way. It became hugely influential in computing and education, serving as the main language that computer scientists used to teach and document algorithms in academic textbooks for over three decades.
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Key facts
- Programming language.name
- ALGOL
- Programming language.logo
- 1965 ALGOL-20 A Language Manual, Fierst et al - cover.jpg
- Programming language.logo caption
- A 1965 manual for ALGOL-20 (an implementation of ALGOL 60)
- Programming language.paradigm
- Procedural, imperative, structured
- Programming language.family
- ALGOL
- Programming language.designers
- Bauer, Bottenbruch, Rutishauser, Samelson, Backus, Katz, Perlis, Wegstein, Naur, Vauquois, van Wijngaarden, Woodger, Green, McCarthy
- Programming language.typing
- Static, strong
- Programming language.scope
- Lexical
- Programming language.influenced
- Most subsequent imperative languages (including so-called ALGOL-like languages)e.g. PL/I, Simula, Pascal, C and Scheme
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17 sectionsContents
- History
- Legacy
- Properties
- Examples and portability
- Code sample comparisons
- ALGOL 60
- ALGOL 68
- Timeline: Hello world
- ALGOL 58 (IAL)
- ALGOL 60 family
- ALGOL 68
- Timeline of ALGOL special characters
- ALGOL implementations
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the Association for Computing Machinery (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 more influential than three other 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, Ada, and C.