Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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.



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Pete