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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:28:57 +0100
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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.

FORTRAN became the start of BASIC.

COBOL was really a standalone thing. You might say SQL owes it some homage.

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