I've never heard of ALGOL both predating and influencing FORTRAN. FORTRAN was announced as a product at the Western Joint Computer Conference in 1957 [1]. ALGOL

I've never heard of ALGOL both predating and influencing FORTRAN. FORTRAN was announced as a product at the Western Joint Computer Conference in 1957 [1]. ALGOL was developed at a meeting in Zurich in 1958 [2]. [1] https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/p165-backus.pdf https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL