On 2/16/25 06:56, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > My father (a metrologist and professor of mechanical engineering) would read > ALGOL programs written by others, based on their resemblance to English. > And yes, it was for years the choice for expressing algorithms in journals > such as CACM. The fashion of rendering keywords as bold text fits that usage > very well.
CALGO ever since the beginning has also allowed algorithms in FORTRAN, it being the only language a lot of number-heavy shops use (e.g. JPL). Algol had the reputation of being a language used mostly by Europeans. --Chuck
