In case you are equally unfamiliar with ALGOL, it's a seminal early programming language, but this isn't the most influential version. That was arguably the classic ALGOL-60, which The Register ...

Simula, an acronym for Simulation Language, is touted as the first object-oriented programming language created by Norwegian ...

I may throw the Android at the wall just for sport. Will the next person who decides to invent a new programming language please just use Algol 60 and make us all happy? Will the next person who ...

The classic ALGOL-60 was once very widely used, and it influenced almost every other imperative programming language in the ...

By now you may have guessed that I have no legitimate criticism of ALGOL. You are correct—I'm just making fun of its name. AAPL is the stock symbol of Apple, Inc. APL is a programming language.