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: Peter Naur • Heinz Rutishauser • Bernard Vauquois • Adriaan van Wijngaarden • John Backus • John McCarthy • Alan Perlis • Julien Green • Klaus Samelson • Charles Katz • Joseph Henry Wegstein • Friedrich L. Bauer • Hermann Bottenbruch
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 • structured programming • procedural programming

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