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ALGOL 68 Dormant

ALGOL 68
KindProgramming language
Appeared1968
StatusDormant
CreatorIFIP WG 2.1 (van Wijngaarden et al)
FamilyALGOL
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The committee's maximalist answer — orthogonality carried to its logical end in a two-level grammar so rigorous it defined the language before anyone could write one; ALGOL 68 Genie still runs it.

Descended from ALGOL 60
Created by Adriaan van Wijngaarden
Influenced BLISS C++

ALGOL 68 — the committee's ambitious 1968 successor — introduced orthogonal design, operator overloading, concurrent programming, and a formal definition so rigorous it took years to implement.\n\nIt was technically superb and commercially ignored; Wirth's ALGOL W became Pascal instead. 'The Emperor's Old Clothes' is Hoare's account of what went wrong.

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Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68