Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?

There were quite a few Algols. Presumbly you were referring to Algol-60
(so-called because the spec was released in 1960). Before that there was
the “International Algorithmic Language”, IAL or “Algol-58”. And
afterwards came the notorious and controversial Algol-68.

In-between there was something called “Wirth-Hoare Algol” or “Algol-W”.
This is where the record-definition syntax came from that Wirth later
incorporated into Pascal, which spawned several descendants, including
Ada.

Ada is not a dead language, by any means. The current interest in writing
more memory-safe code isn’t just being spearheaded by Rust: Ada was doing
this sort of thing decades ago.