Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 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.

Granted, Algol-60 was more of an academic language, much like the orignal
Pascal.

However, Burroughs Corporation created a version (based on Algol 68) for
programming its stack-based mainframe computers that was quite useable --
similar to what Apollo did with Pascal. Burroughs Algol was used for both
systems and application programming. It was, in fact, my first* high-level
language, because it was used for the CS courses at the University of
Delaware.

I have no idea what you're referring to with respect to non-English
keywords.

-- Dave Tweed

* Actually, that's not quite true -- I had a little bit of exposure to the
  original Dartmouth BASIC running under DTSS on the GE 635 computer at the
  Naval Academy, while attending a one-week camp there during high school.
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