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• Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed.
  -- T. Cheatham...
• No extensible language will be universal. -- T. Cheatham
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• Quote #6 The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my amazement and admiration of ALGOL 60.
  Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on neary all its successors....
• The most important thing in the programming language is the name.
  A language will not succeed without a good name....
• THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12 -- LITHP This otherwise unremarkable language, originally developed in San Francisco, is distinguished by the absence of an "S" in its character se
  users must substitute "TH". LITHP is thaid to be utheful in protheththing lithtth....
• ALGOL 60 -- An Austin Mini. Boy, that's a small car.
• This is UNIX, the most wellknown programming language/ operating system, you've never heard of.