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Re:The seven programming ur-languages (2021) by CalChris on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:54AM (#35816339)
I've never heard of ALGOL both predating and influencing FORTRAN. FORTRAN was announced as a product at the Western Joint Computer Conference in 1957 [1]. ALGOL was developed at a meeting in Zurich in 1958 [2].

[1] https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL

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Re:The seven programming ur-languages (2021) by adjav on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:07PM (#35817665)
ALGOL has certainly influenced the development of FORTRAN at least, with Fortran 90 and later fitting in pretty neatly amongst the various ALGOL-likes.
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