Lisp, Fortran, Cobol have all been used and working, in one form or another, for more than 50 years. Algol, on the other hand, has evolved into a great family

Lisp, Fortran, Cobol have all been used and working, in one form or another, for more than 50 years. Algol, on the other hand, has evolved into a great family of languages. Not unlike Latin, if I might say so.