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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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- 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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