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 | | ALGOL originated in a joint resolution by several user groups (qv), including SHARE (qv), USE (qv), and DUO (qv) on May 10, 1957, to transcend the characteristics of particular machines architectures, and develop a language to facilitate communication across those architectures. |
 | | ALGOL was also found wanting because, as one of the ALGOL 60 final report authors put it, ALGOL is like the Bible, to be interpreted and not understood. ALGOL, in effect, remained more an abstruse report than a working language. |
 | | ALGOL brought together many of the leading programmers in Europe and America for the first time, stimulated the publication and dissemination of important algorithms to the computer science community, and created new life for compiler (qv) design. |
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