Not to take away from Dijkstra's brilliance but the problem with the narrative above is that Dijkstra wasn't part of the team that developed Algol 60 and that c

Not to take away from Dijkstra's brilliance but the problem with the narrative above is that Dijkstra wasn't part of the team that developed Algol 60 and that can easily be seen by the fact that his name is not on the Algol 60 Report or on the Revised Algol 60 Report. He did write an early book on Algol 60, he did write the first Algol 60 compiler and he did plenty of work on block structure language design but he didn't design nor was he a major participant in the design of Algol 60 itself.