| ALGOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1055 words) |
 | ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. |
| ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it; C.A.R. Hoare's original quote on this is recalled in the aphorism: "ALGOL 60 was a great improvement on its successors." (This is sometimes erroneously attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, also known for his pointed comments, who helped to implement an early ALGOL 60 compiler.) |
| ALGOL 60 as officially defined had no I/O facilities; implementations defined their own in ways that were rarely compatible with each other. |
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