About programing, a general question

Fri Dec 17 16:54:19 UTC 2010

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:16 +0000, Colin Law wrote:

> Referring back to previous posts, Algol is of course the mother of all
> languages, not Fortran.

FORTRAN predates Algol, although many concepts introduced by Algol
(recursion, structured flow control, etc) are found in most modern
programming languages.  Many of these concepts were backported to
FORTRAN which originally had none of those concepts.

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