Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : peter_flass (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Peter Flass)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 24. Sep 2024, 23:36:58
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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 it’s 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. I’m really surprised no other language has
picked this up, it’s so handy.
-- Pete
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