Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:22:13 08/13/99
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On August 12, 1999 at 21:50:48, Pete Galati wrote: >On August 12, 1999 at 19:38:37, H Fraser wrote: > >>Algol was the original recursive computer language, predating B, which predated >>C. It was very useful for specifying numerical and logic algorithms independant >>of platform. ACM published it algorithms in Algol. ALGOrithmic Languange, a >>binary star. What would take 500 lines of FORTRAN could be dashed off in 50 >>with Algol. DC Algol was Burroughs' (Unisys after Burroughs bought Sperry) >>implementation of a Algol as a Data Comm language. It used a 48 bit word, >>implemented reverse polish notation in hardware, and had an inaccessible macine >>instruction set--you could only program in Algol, DCAlgol, or in compilers >>written in Algol or DCAlgol, which were themselves written in Algol and DCAlgol. > >That still sounds pretty scary too me, even being more efficient than Fortran. > >Pete Algol was the best language of it's day (60s). After so many years of people having to write in machine language, there was finally a good higher level language. Similar to Pascal in some respects if I remember correctly and I think the source of some of Wirth's ideas for Pascal (Wirth also contributed on some aspects of Algol, but years after it was orginally developed). KarinsDad :)
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