08-10-2021, 03:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2021, 03:50 PM by philrandal.)
(08-09-2021, 01:58 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: I've seen it said (stealing from an old quora.com post) that ALGOL is the Latin of programming languages---like Latin, it's dead; it was influential; it was pioneering. This witticism is easier to appreciate if you've actually used ALGOL (way back in the last century everybody published their algorithms in ALGOL; it was invented for this purpose by an ACM committee). I used the ALGOL compiler on the Maniac III computer at the University of Chicago back in the day.
I learnt programming Algol 60 on an Elliott 503 at my university, followed by Fortran and Assembler on an IBM 1130, and then Burroughs Algol on a B6700 (a wonderful machine).
Phil
