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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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The Natural Philosopher 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.
> 
>

When I went to uni in the 70s, the computer science lecturer had a 
hard-on for Pascal, the latest and greatest. Always slipped in snide 
remarks about BASIC or COBOL in most classes.