ALGOL

ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.. In the sense that most modern languages are "algol-like" . it was the most successful so far of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL. It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and eventually gave rise to many other programming languages, including BCPL, B, Pascal, Simula, and C. ALGOL introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs...