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I'd hesitate to say that Lua "didn't catch on". It's extremely popular as an embeddable scripting language, particularly in game development. Another counterex

I'd hesitate to say that Lua "didn't catch on". It's extremely popular as an embeddable scripting language, particularly in game development. Another counterexample to consider is Python. It's quite unlike Algol, but that certainly hasn't stopped it from becoming popular.

msla 2y ago
Python is like Algol in terms of syntax, certainly, and in fact is almost an ideal Algol syntactically: It has no (or few) block delimiter characters or keywords, but imposes proper indentation as a syntactic requirement.