ALGOL
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Sep 14, 2026
Casey MuratoriGUEST
he's the Naur in Bacchus Naur form.
Casey MuratoriGUEST
If you ever heard of the language Algol, he was like a major, you know, figure in standardizing that and writing up the standard and all this stuff, right? So anyway, Horace, like, yeah, I proposed this thing.
Casey MuratoriGUEST
I went through, I said it, and like, and Peter Naur was like, ah, making multi-pass compilers is easy.
Casey MuratoriGUEST
I just wrote a nine-pass one.
Fatima MaldonadoGUEST
That's the DNA in this.
Fatima MaldonadoGUEST
Maybe in the 60s, between the 60s and 70s, there came programming languages, yeah? Starting with the old ones, which most are not around, Algol, Pascal, which is still around, Cobol, which is still around, and so on.
Fatima MaldonadoGUEST
Then programming languages were evolving and we got today more sophisticated languages.
Fatima MaldonadoGUEST
There came Java.
Shriram KrishnamurthiGUEST
Its name is Formula Translator.
Shriram KrishnamurthiGUEST
Algol's name is Algorithmic Language.
Shriram KrishnamurthiGUEST
Lisp's is List Processing.
Shriram KrishnamurthiGUEST
They were domain-specific languages that somehow got morphed into so-called general-purpose languages.