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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:37:01 -0700
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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
>> On 2024-09-24, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 24/09/2024 14:11, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> 
>>>> No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?  It was contemporaneous
>>>> with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL>
>>> 
>>> If you look at Algol, it really spawned the likes of B,  C, and Pascal 
>>> and so on . Its use of local variables being a key feature. They 
>>> completely replaced it.
>> 
>> At the risk of planting flame bait <nudge, nudge>, here in North
>> America Algol was generally considered the domain of computer
>> science weenies, while FORTRAN and COBOL were used for applications
>> in the Real World [tm] (science/engineering and business, respectively).
>> Oh, and don't forget RPG...
> 
> Well, except for the Burroughs Large systems, of course, where
> Algol (in various extended forms) was used both as a systems programming
> language (e.g. for the operating system itself) and as an application
> language.
> 
> Still is.
> 
> 

Didn’t HP use ALGOL?

-- 
Pete