See AlgolLanguage and TonyHoareOnAlgolSixty. Algol 60 is one the early pioneering computer programming languages that emerged in the first wave of such languages in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Among this generation of languages were Fortran, Cobol, and Lisp. See also CallByName. ---- CategoryProgrammingLanguage CategoryAlgol CategoryComputingHistory