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familia de lenguajes de programación imperativos para computadoras
ALGOL es una familia de lenguajes de programación imperativos para computadoras desarrollada originalmente en 1958. ALGOL influyó fuertemente en muchos otros lenguajes y fue el método estándar para la descripción de algoritmos utilizado por la Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) en libros de texto y fuentes académicas durante más de treinta años.
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“Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form.”
“One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.”
“[ALGOL 60] is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.”
“The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.”
“There is an appreciated substance to the phrase "ALGOL-like" which is often used in arguments about programming, languages and computation. ALGOL appears to be a durable model, and even flourishes under surgery — be it explorative, plastic, or amputative.”
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