30 Sep
2026
30 Sep
'26
8:12 a.m.
On Sep 29, 2026, at 7:57 PM, Jim Davis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
And all our daily driver languages look like Algol or FORTRAN,
excepting Forth and APL, both written by mad scientists,
And Lisp. And TECO. Also SNOBOL, I think. And POP-2.
But yes, Algol-60 is the ancestor of most programming languages, in particular C and C++
(though C++ also borrowed a bunch from Algol-68).
paul