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ALGOL 58 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (621 words) |
 | Both IAL and ALGOL60 allowed arrays with arbitrary lower and upper subscript bounds, and allowed subscript bounds to be defined by integer expressions. |
| Both IAL and ALGOL60 allowed nesting of procedure declarations and the corresponding identifier scopes. |
| The IAL report did not explicitly specify which standard functions were to be provided, making a vague reference to the "standard functions of analysis." The ALGOL60 report had a more explicit list of standard functions. |
| :: LEAST I COULD DO FORUM:: > 12/6/05 Programming Language of the Week: Algol (487 words) |
| Algol60 was strongly typed in the sense that the compiler checked parameter types in expressions and subroutine calls. |
| Algol60 was probably the first computer language whose syntax was completely described with a formal grammar prior to writing the compiler! |
| Algol60 as originally defined had no language statements specifically for I/O, which is common today but unique back in the late 1950s. |
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