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ALGOL 60 (ALGOrithmic Language 1960) is a committee-driven, very good and influential language that came out in 1960.
It never got popular but it introduced a lot of important concepts, including getting rid of GOTO.
Jumping around from line to line in languages like BASIC made it hard to follow the flow of the program, and made writing programs error-prone. ALGOL 60 introduced structure programming and blocks: it used BEGIN and END (because curly braces weren’t available), and it’s thanks to ALGOL 60 if we have blocks now instead of GOTO.
ALGOL also wanted to be less specialized, good for both scientific and business processing.
Here’s how it looked:
procedure Absmax(a) Size:(n, m) Result:(y) Subscripts:(i, k);
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