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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 15:36:58 -0700
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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.
> 

PL/I got it’s block structures from ALGOL.

> FORTRAN became the start of BASIC.
> 
> COBOL was really a standalone thing. You might say SQL owes it some homage.
> 

PL/I got PICTURE  from COBOL. I’m really surprised no other language has
picked this up, it’s so handy.



-- 
Pete