On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 09:56 -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > Well, "ALGOL 58" is not a thing. The document describing the 1958 > language called it "International Algebraic Language". I only > glanced at it -- the first time I saw an actual description is when I > read the 1958 report in an appendix of Gauthier's thesis -- but my > memory is that it can't be thought of as a subset of Algol 60 but > rather a dead end relative that went off in a wrong direction that > the 1960 report abandoned.
Jules Schwartz chaired a committee at SDC that extended IAL. It came to be called Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language, or JOVIAL. It was standardized in 1973 as MIL-STD-1589, and revised in 1984. It's still in use in embedded applications, mostly military vehicles and aircraft.
