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ALGOL 58 Dead

ALGOL 58
KindProgramming language
Appeared1958
Ended1959
StatusDead
CreatorACM/GAMM committee
FamilyALGOL
Also known asIAL, Zürich ALGOL
Sourcewww.masswerk.at ↗

The international committee language that invented the block and began Algol's reign as the syntax most languages would grow up speaking.

Succeeded by ALGOL 60
Descendants JOVIAL

ALGOL 58 — the 1958 Zurich report of the joint ACM-GAMM committee — was the first international attempt at a universal algorithmic language, introducing the block structure, begin/end, and the idea that algorithms could be notation, not machine code.\n\nIt was superseded within two years by ALGOL 60; its contribution is the committee model itself.

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Sources

  1. masswerk.at/algol60/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58