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ALGOL 60

ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them, representing a key advance in the rise of structured programming. ALGOL 60 was one of the first languages implementing function…

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Designed by
Backus, Bauer, Green, Katz, McCarthy, Naur, Perlis, Rutishauser, Samelson, van Wijngaarden, Vauquois, Wegstein, Woodger
Family
ALGOL
First appeared
1960; 66 years ago (1960)
Paradigms
Procedural, imperative, structured
Scope
Lexical
Typing discipline
Static, strong

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ALGOL 60

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ALGOL 60

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related to External links · 55
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related to Further reading · 46
ALGOL 60 → Academic Press, ALGOL, Amsterdam, An ALGOL, Archived, Brian, Brian RandellGoos, Computer, Dijkstra, Edsger, Fakultät, Gerhard, German, German-speaking, Germany, Geschichte, History, Implementation, Informatik, Karlsruhe
related to LEAP · 12
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL, Attribute, California Berkeley, Jerome Feldman, LEAP, MIT Lincoln Lab, Object, Paul Rovner, SAIL, The, University, Value
related to history · 10
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL, Backus, Donald Knuth's, Europe, It, Its, John Backus, Naur, Peter Naur, United States
related to Language levels · 10
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL, Hardware Representations, Implementations, Publication, Publication Language, Reference Language, The, The ALGOL, The Reference, The Reference Language
related to Properties · 9
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL, Call-by-name, For, I/O, In, Now, Say, The, Think
related to Standardization · 6
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL, COBOL, Hardware, ISO, ISO/TR, Programming
related to ALGOL 60 implementations timeline · 5
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL, ESPOL, NEWP, The Burroughs, To
Designed by · 1
ALGOL 60 → Backus, Bauer, Green, Katz, McCarthy, Naur, Perlis, Rutishauser, Samelson, van Wijngaarden, Vauquois, Wegstein, Woodger
Family · 1
ALGOL 60 → ALGOL

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algol 60 language languages programming used report computer hardware example naur implementations words standard also code call-by-name first pascal compiler

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ALGOL 60Designed byBackus, Bauer, Green, Katz, McCarthy, Naur, Perlis, Rutishauser, Samelson, van Wijngaarden, Vauquois, Wegstein, Woodger1.00infobox
ALGOL 60FamilyALGOL1.00infobox
ALGOL 60First appeared1960; 66 years ago (1960)1.00infobox
ALGOL 60ParadigmsProcedural, imperative, structured1.00infobox
ALGOL 60ScopeLexical1.00infobox
ALGOL 60Typing disciplineStatic, strong1.00infobox
ESPOLinstance ofderivations and sublanguages of ALGOL 60.The Burroughs dialects included special system programming dialects0.80text
NEWPinstance ofderivations and sublanguages of ALGOL 60.The Burroughs dialects included special system programming dialects0.80text
ALGOL 60related to ALGOL 60 implementations timelineTo0.60section
ALGOL 60related to ALGOL 60 implementations timelineALGOL0.60section
ALGOL 60related to ALGOL 60 implementations timelineThe Burroughs0.60section
ALGOL 60related to ALGOL 60 implementations timelineESPOL0.60section

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