ALGOL N (''N'' for ''Nippon'' – Japan in

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) is the name of a successor

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to ALGOL 60, designed in Japan with the goal of being as simple as ALGOL 60 but as powerful as

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. The language was proposed by

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. ALGOL N tried to use extensibility to solve the problem that language designers faced when trying to make an inextensible language for all domains, or having to make many domain-specific languages (DSLs), one for each domain. It avoided

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(coercion) while not making things more difficult for programmers.

References

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