On 03/19/2017 02:14 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote: > "The Fortran codes implementing the most effective methods are > provided in the included diskette. The codes are portable on virtually > any computer, extensively commented and---hopefully---easy to use."
Take a look at early ACM CALGO (collected algorithms). Algorithm 1 dates from 1960 and is in Algol; indeed all of Volume I and a good part of Volume II are exclusively Algol. You don't hit FORTRAN until about 1968 (somewhere around Algorithm 330). After that, you'll see pages and pages of FORTRAN. I do think that Algol is far more elegant for describing algorithms than FORTRAN; but the sad fact is that many (US-based) programmers didn't speak Algol. --Chuck
