Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 24. Sep 2024, 15:28:57
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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.
FORTRAN became the start of BASIC.
COBOL was really a standalone thing. You might say SQL owes it some homage.
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