ALGOL language

As a practical point, any computer code has to be transferable between platforms, so there is little point writing code in esoteric but obsolete languages such as French ALGOL. 

Other familiar languages may be C, ADA, LISP, ALGOL, PL/I, Prolog, and APL which are now available on many microcomputer systems. 

ALGOL-60, an international algorithmic language, was developed with logical completeness by Wirth62 and Backus, but did not "catch on," except among minor non-IBM computer manufacturers, and ultimately disappeared. 

PL-I, or programming language One, was meant by IBM to be a superset of both FORTRAN and ALGOL, but it was resisted in the marketplace and disappeared. 

Naur, P., Revised report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60. Commun. ACM 6, I (1963). 

The fraction of sample decomposed (a) from DTA curves was calculated by an algorithm made in ALGOL 60 language for a NCR Elliot Model 4130 computer by Skvara and Satava (28). This alogarithm calculated a and log c/(a) and plotted the latter as a function of temperature. Comparison of the computed DTA data with the experimental values for several dissociation reactions indicated a good agreement and applicability of the method. 

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