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jan 1, 1958 - ALGOL 58

Description:

also called international algebraic language
scientific
in competition with FORTRAN
quickly superceeded by ALGOL 60
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58
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could have user-level recursion
(Computerphile)

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jan 1, 1958
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~ 68 years ago