ALGOL 68

ALGOL 68 is a programming language created in 1968.

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ALGOL 68 (short for Algorithmic Language 1968) is an imperative computer programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously defined syntax and semantics. The contributions of ALGOL 68 to the field of computer science have been deep, wide ranging and enduring, although many of these contributions were only publicly identified when they had reappeared in subsequently developed programming languages.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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ALGOL 68 first developed in International Federation for Information Processing
ALGOL 68 on HOPL
See also: (36 related languages)ALGOL 68-R, FLACC, ALGOL 60, C, Bourne shell, Bash, Python, Seed7, Mary, S3, S-algol, Pascal, Unix, Perl, Lisp, Unicode, BCPL, Algol, ASCII, Java, JOVIAL, Simula, CORAL, PEARL, RTL/2, HAL/S, Fortran, COBOL, CMS-2, BLISS, ALGOL W, SPARC, Solaris, Multics, ALGOL N, Ada
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Example from hello-world:

begin
  print(("Hello World",newline))
end

Example from Wikipedia:

proc test = (real a, b) :...
...
test (x plus 1, x);

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	print
Directives	✓		.PR POINT .PR .PR UPPER .PR .PR RES .PR 'pr' quote 'pr'

title	author	year	ratings	rating
Introductory Algol 68 Programming	D. F Brailsford	1979	0	0.0
Programming And Problem Solving In Algol 68	Andrew John Theodore Colin		1	4.00
A Practical Guide to Algol 68 (Wiley Series in Computing)	Frank G. Pagan	1976	0	0.0

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