language ALGOrithmic Language 1960.
A portable language for scientific computations. ALGOL 60 was
There were three
lexical representations: hardware,
reference, and publication. The only structured data types
were
arrays, but they were permitted to have lower bounds
it introduced :=; if-then-else; very general "for" loops;
switch declaration (an array of statement labels generalising
It lacked user-defined types, character manipulation and
["Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60", Peter Naur
ed., CACM 3(5):299-314, May 1960].
(1995-01-25)