One cool thing about Algol is that, while the language itself is over 60 years old, most modern programmers can have a decent understanding of source code written in it. It's a bit like reading 17th century English. You don't quite understand everything, but you can grasp most of it.
I wonder why the retrocomputing crowd hasn't done much in ALGOL. Perhaps because it's just easier to write in BASIC, which was influenced by it.
I wonder why the retrocomputing crowd hasn't done much in ALGOL. Perhaps because it's just easier to write in BASIC, which was influenced by it.