ALGOL What type of applications was it used for

[Tobster]

What types of applications was ALGOL used for?

[Tobster]

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[Ramses de Norre]

Read the first line here (http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/algol/algol.html).

[Tobster]

Thanks

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[pmasiar]

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In college they will tell you that Wikipedia is evil, but in the world outside of the ivory tower, wikipedia is starting point of every learning experience. :-)

so, go and start reading from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL

Before PASCAL, ALGOL was for almost everything, including introductory language for learning programming. But even in dark times of '60 there were other languages: FORTRAN for numerical calculations, COBOL for business processing (including paper report formatting), and soon also LISP for AI and PL/1 for everything IBM did. Mind you, this was way before C... :-) And all languages were spelled in uppercase, because we did not invented lowercase yet - 7 bits was supposed to be enough :-)

So you may want to be more exact: "for what was ALGOL used WHEN".

[TheSqueak]

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M150, DATA, Computing and Information?

[Tobster]

M150, DATA, Computing and Information?

Yep :)

[TheSqueak]

Me too :)

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