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On 9/24/2024 4:36 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> 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.
PL/I got itrCOs block structures from ALGOL.
FORTRAN became the start of BASIC.
COBOL was really a standalone thing. You might say SQL owes it some homage. >>
PL/I got PICTURE from COBOL. IrCOm really surprised no other language has picked this up, itrCOs so handy.
Unisys ALGOL has PICTURE declarations. The REPLACE statement features
"WITH <PICTURE identifier>" as one of its many options.
Louis
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