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