ALGOL 68

Programming language ALGOL 68Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language – Algol 68 Edited by: A. van Wijngaarden et al, September 1973ParadigmsMulti-paradigm: concurrent, imperativeFamilyALGOLDesigned byA. van Wijngaarden, B. J. Mailloux, J. E. L. Peck and C. H. A. Koster, et al.First appearedFinal Report: 1968; 58 years ago (1968)r0Stable releaseAlgol 68/RR / Revised Report: 1973; 53 years ago (1973)r1 Typing disciplineStatic, strong, safe, structuralScopeLexicalWebsitealgol68-lang.orgMajor implementationsALGOL 68C, Algol 68 Genie, ALGOL 68-R, ALGOL 68RS, ALGOL 68S, FLACC, Алгол 68 Ленинград/Leningrad Unit, Odra ALGOL 68DialectsALGOL 68/FR (Final Reportr0)Influenced byALGOL 60, ALGOL YInfluencedC, C++, Bourne shell, KornShell, Bash, Steelman, Ada, Python, Mary, S3 ALGOL 68 (short for Algorithmic Language 1968) is an imperative programming language member of the ALGOL family that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously defined syntax and semantics. The complexity of the language's definition, which runs to several hundred pages filled with non-standard terminology, made co