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

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