(ALGOrithmic Language) A high-level compiler language that was developed as an international language for the expression of algorithms between people and between people and machines. ALGOL-60 (1960) was simple and widely used in Europe. ALGOL-68 (1968) was more complicated and scarcely used, but was the inspiration for Pascal.
The following example changes Fahrenheit to Celsius:
fahrenheit
begin
real fahr;
print ("Enter Fahrenheit ");
read (fahr);
print ("Celsius is ", (fahr-32.0) * 5.0/9.0);
end
finish
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