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  • Re: The joy of FORTRAN

    From Louis Krupp@lkrupp@invalid.pssw.com.invalid to alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.unisys on Wed Sep 25 02:45:09 2024
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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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