7 Jul
2024
7 Jul
'24
7:57 p.m.
From: Steve Jenkin
C wasn't the first standardised coding language,
FORTRAN & COBOL at
least were before it
There were a ton; Algol-60 is the most imppotant one I can think of.
(I was thinking that Algol-60 was probably an important precursor to BCPL,
which was the predecessor to C, but Richards' first BCPL paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1476793.1476880
"BCPL: A tool for compiler writing and system programming" doesn't call it
out, only CPL. However, CPL does admit its dues to Algol-60: "CPL is to a
large extent based on ALGOL 60".)
Noel