ALGOL
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ALGOL is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by
A 1965 manual for ALGOL-20 (an implementation of ALGOL 60)
COBOL
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COBOL is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural, and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily used in busines
ALGOL
…Algol-like", it was arguably more influential than three other high-level programming languages among which it was roughly contemporary: FORTRAN, Lisp, and COBOL. It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and eventually gave rise to many other programming languages, including PL/I…
The COBOL 60 report to CODASYL (April 1960)
COBOL program deck of punched cards, from the 1970s