ALGOL

ALGOL is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1959
Designed by: Adriaan van Wijngaarden • Alan Perlis • Bernard Vauquois • Charles Katz • Friedrich L. Bauer • Heinz Rutishauser • Hermann Bottenbruch • John Backus • John McCarthy • Joseph Henry Wegstein • Julien Green • Klaus Samelson • Peter Naur
Aliases: ALGO rithmic L anguage

Wikidata: Q188436

Influenced: Algek • BASIC • BLISS • C • CGOL • Icon • Mesa • Pascal • Pascal Script • PL/I • PL/M • REXX • Scheme • SETL

Influenced by: Fortran

Programming paradigms: imperative programming • procedural programming • structured programming

Language types: imperative programming language • procedural programming language • structured programming language