Peter Onion wrote:
> Your "USA == the world" blinkers are stopping you seeing the facts.

That fact is that in the 1960s USA and England was 99% of the world of
computing.

> Algol 60 was a very successful language in it's day.

It caught on in a few niches and was popular in europe for a while (probably
exactly because it wasn't completely based on english), but I would hardly
call it successful as a language.  Some of its concepts do live on, but the
language doesn't.  Also notice that silly keywords chosen only to not be
english hasn't been tried with any seriousness since.


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