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Ask HN: Is Algol used anywhere today?
- rtra 14y agoI can't answer your question, but I immediately thought of Perlis's preface to SICP: "Algol 60, never to be an active language again, lives on in the genes of Scheme and Pascal." Did racket revive Algol 60, even if with a weak pulse?
- bashinator 14y agoI think the bourne shell if..then..else..fi syntax is derived from Algol.
- dandrews 14y agoAccording to the ALGOL 68 page at Wikipedia: "Steve Bourne, who was on the Algol 68 revision committee, took some of its ideas to his Bourne shell (and thereby, to descendant shells such as Bash) and to C (and thereby to descendants such as C++)."
- brudgers 14y agoYou could start a movement with Algol 68 Genie: http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html