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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:09:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

> No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?

There were quite a few Algols. Presumbly you were referring to Algol-60 
(so-called because the spec was released in 1960). Before that there was 
the “International Algorithmic Language”, IAL or “Algol-58”. And 
afterwards came the notorious and controversial Algol-68.

In-between there was something called “Wirth-Hoare Algol” or “Algol-W”. 
This is where the record-definition syntax came from that Wirth later 
incorporated into Pascal, which spawned several descendants, including 
Ada.

Ada is not a dead language, by any means. The current interest in writing 
more memory-safe code isn’t just being spearheaded by Rust: Ada was doing 
this sort of thing decades ago.