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
The COBOL 60 report to CODASYL (April 1960)
COBOL program deck of punched cards, from the 1970s
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
COBOL
…unambiguously. A reluctant short-term committee performed a total cleanup, and, by March 1963, it was reported that COBOL's syntax was as definable as ALGOL's, although semantic ambiguities remained. Early COBOL compilers were primitive and slow. COBOL is a difficult language to write a compiler for, due…
A 1965 manual for ALGOL-20 (an implementation of ALGOL 60)