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algol

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for algol.

Editorial note

And Algol is not one language but several: Algol-60, Algol-68, Algol-W,...

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Quick take

A family of programming languages derived from ALGOL 58.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of algol gathered in one view.

noun

A family of programming languages derived from ALGOL 58.

noun

(computer languages) An influential early high-level programming language designed for solving mathematical and scientific problems.

noun

(astronomy) An eclipsing binary star in the constellation of Perseus; Beta (β) Persei. It represents the eye of Medusa, whose head is being held by Perseus.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for algol.

noun

A family of programming languages derived from ALGOL 58.

noun

(computer languages) An influential early high-level programming language designed for solving mathematical and scientific problems.

noun

(astronomy) An eclipsing binary star in the constellation of Perseus; Beta (β) Persei. It represents the eye of Medusa, whose head is being held by Perseus.

noun

(computer languages) Alternative letter-case form of ALGOL. [(computer languages) An influential early high-level programming language designed for solving mathematical and scientific problems.]

Example sentences

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And Algol is not one language but several: Algol-60, Algol-68, Algol-W,...

2

I feel learning one Algol derived language such as Python followed by Haskell is a good solution.

3

Modula-2 was born in 1978, but we can go back to Algol and Lisp even.

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C and Pascal were real and gaining ground and Algol 68, CLU, Alphard, Scheme, the Red and Blue languages, and ADA had captured the imagination of the language designers.

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I can't remember.) Again it wasn't the implementation of Algol68 that was important (the language as specified was too hard to implement) it was the ideas it suggested to future language designers--in fact, Niklaus Wirth quit the Algol68 design committee with the idea that Algol ought to go in a simpler direction, which led to Pascal.

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Once you’re in the IO monad, you’re stuck there forever, and are reduced to Algol-style imperative programming.

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Here is a list of features that Yeti has that are either not in Python or not in Algol.

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If anything is far less featureful and Algol-like than most of the other languages that have found a way to fit Generics.

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The initial chapters of either R5RS and Ansi CL don't make it obvious how scheme/lisp are different from Algol, except the (()).

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However in 2015 we shouldn't be fighting against bounds errors and buffer exploits when it was already a solved problem in Algol.

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He just found it interesting that the two lines branching off of Algol-60 do seem to have come back together in an interesting way in Go.

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It looks like a bit of a mishmash of syntaxes, if anything, so I'm really not sure what makes it "ML derived" any more than it is Python-derived or Algol-derived.

Quote examples

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It looks like a bit of a mishmash of syntaxes, if anything, so I'm really not sure what makes it "ML derived" any more than it is Python-derived or Algol-derived.

Proper noun examples

1

Once you’re in the IO monad, you’re stuck there forever, and are reduced to Algol-style imperative programming.

2

Here is a list of features that Yeti has that are either not in Python or not in Algol.

3

If anything is far less featureful and Algol-like than most of the other languages that have found a way to fit Generics.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use algol in a sentence?

And Algol is not one language but several: Algol-60, Algol-68, Algol-W,...

What does algol mean?

A family of programming languages derived from ALGOL 58.

What part of speech is algol?

algol is commonly used as noun.