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ALGOL

Family of imperative computer programming languages

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Also known as ALGO rithmic L anguage

Founded: 1959

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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.

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Designed by: Friedrich L. Bauer
Hermann Bottenbruch
Heinz Rutishauser
Klaus Samelson
John Backus
Charles Katz
Alan Perlis
Joseph Henry Wegstein
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Peter Naur
Bernard Vauquois
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
Julien Green
John McCarthy
Programming paradigm: procedural programming
structured programming
imperative programming
Influenced by: Fortran
Has version, edition or translation: ALGOL 58 released: 1958
ALGOL 60 released: 1960
ALGOL 68 released: 1968
Official name: Algorithmic Language
Short name: ALGOL
Has use: computer programming
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