The name ALGOL is an acronym for “Algorithmic Language.” There are various dialects including ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.”—Language Finger, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana.Hello World exampleBEGIN OUTSTRING(2, "Hello World"); END.structure...
4 Features •ALGOL60allowedfortwoevaluationstrategiesforparameterpassing:thecommoncall-by-value,andcall-by-name.Call-by-namehadcertainlimitationsincontrasttocall-by-reference,makingitanundesirablefeatureinlanguagedesign.Forexample,itisimpossibleinALGOL60todevelopaprocedurethatwillswapthevaluesoftwoparametersifthe...
ALGOL, a second-generation language, was more graceful than any of its predecessors, for example, FORTRAN, MATH-MATIC, and IT. During 1956 and 1957, a programming revolution began. Programming aids, hitherto modest extensions of machine assembly language or interpreters executing the codes of ...
at least partly as a protest against Algol 68. Niklaus Wirth, for example, fed up with the complexity of Algol 68,went off to design Pascal. And having written and supported a fair bit of Pascal code from about 1984