ALGOL 68

Programming language

Softwareversion, edition or translation programming languageQ2166735

Also known as ALGOrithmic Language 1968

Developer: Barry J. Mailloux
, John E. L. Peck
, Cornelis H. A. Koster
+1 more
Released: 1968

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ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language member of the ALGOL family that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously defined syntax and semantics.

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