ALGOL 60

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ALGOL 60 The name ALGOL of the family is sometimes given in mixed case, and sometimes in all uppercase. Gave rise to many other programming languages, including BCPL, B, Pascal, Simula, C, and many others. ALGOL 58 introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them. ALGOL 60 was the first language implementing nested function definitions with lexical scope. Niklaus Wirth based his own ALGOL W on ALGOL 60 before moving to develop Pascal. Algol-W was intended to be the next generation ALGOL but the ALGOL 68 committee decided on a design that was more complex and advanced rather than a cleaned simplified ALGOL 60. The official ALGOL versions are named after the year they were first published. Note: ALGOL 68 is substantially different from Algol 60 but was not well received so that in general "Algol" means dialects of Algol 60