ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid-1950s which greatly influenced many other languages. It was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years.
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Alan Perlis, John McCarthy (computer scientist), Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Peter Naur, John Backus, Friedrich L. Bauer, Klaus Samelson, Heinz Rutishauser, Charles Katz, Bernard_Vauquois, Hermann_Bottenbruch, Joseph_Henry_Wegstein, Julien_Green_(computer_scientist), Michael_Woodger
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