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import ../code/conceptPage.scroll
id algol-58
name ALGOL 58
appeared 1958
tags pl
fileType text
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originCommunity Association for Computing Machinery && Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58
related algol algol-60 act-iii jovial neliac algo ada mad
summary ALGOL 58, originally known as IAL, is one of the family of ALGOL computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According to John Backus "The Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference had two principal motives in proposing the IAL: (a) To provide a means of communicating numerical methods and other procedures between people, and (b) To provide a means of realizing a stated process on a variety of machines..." ALGOL 58 introduced the fundamental notion of the compound statement, but it was restricted to control flow only, and it was not tied to identifier scope in the way that Algol 60's blocks were.
pageId 944870
created 2004
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appeared 1958
hopl https://hopl.info/showlanguage.prx?exp=17
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