ALGOL W

ALGOL W is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively simple upgrade of the original ALGOL 60, adding string, bitstring, complex number and reference to record data types and call-by-result passing of parameters, introducing the while statement, replacing switch with the case statement, and generally tightening up the language. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1966
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth • Tony Hoare

Wikidata: Q1538458

Influenced: Pascal

Programming paradigms: imperative programming • procedural programming • structured programming

Language types: procedural programming language

begin
    write( "Hello World" )
end.