Ask HN: Is Algol used anywhere today?

6 points by minussohn 13 years ago | 4 comments

rtra 13 years ago |

I can't answer your question, but I immediately thought of Perlis's preface to SICP: "Algol 60, never to be an active language again, lives on in the genes of Scheme and Pascal."

Did racket revive Algol 60, even if with a weak pulse?

brudgers 13 years ago |

You could start a movement with Algol 68 Genie:

http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html

bashinator 13 years ago |

I think the bourne shell if..then..else..fi syntax is derived from Algol.

dandrews 13 years ago | |

According to the ALGOL 68 page at Wikipedia: "Steve Bourne, who was on the Algol 68 revision committee, took some of its ideas to his Bourne shell (and thereby, to descendant shells such as Bash) and to C (and thereby to descendants such as C++)."