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

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