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You are talking about Algol 60 which is a very different language to Algol 68
by fanf2 2y ago
You are talking about Algol 60 which is a very different language to Algol 68
- pjmlp 2y ago> The first implementation of the standard, based on the late-1968 draft Report, was introduced by the Royal Radar Establishment in the UK as ALGOL 68-R in July 1970. This was, however, a subset of the full language, and Barry Mailloux, the final editor of the Report, joked that "It is a question of morality. We have a Bible and you are sinning!"[31] This version nevertheless became very popular on the ICL machines, and became a widely-used language in military coding, especially in the UK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68
- fanf2 2y agoBurroughs Algol was based on Algol 60, Pascal was derived from Algol W which forked off from Algol 60 well before Algol 68, PL/I also predates Algol 68.
- pjmlp 2y agoApparently you missed the point, "History would have been much different if Algol 68 hadn't existed in first place." Without the way Algol 68 went down, Algol W and the related events that gave birth to Pascal linage would never happened. Likewise, PL/I adoption linage would most likely taken a different evolution.