Definition: ALGOL

(ALGOrithmic Language) A high-level programming 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. See Pascal.

 fahrenheit
 begin
  real fahr;
  print ("Enter Fahrenheit ");
  read (fahr);
  print ("Celsius is ",(fahr-32.0)*5.0/9.0);
 end
 finish