BALGOL - Programming language

BALGOL is a programming language created in 1959 by Bob Barton.

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Tags: programming language
Early development of BALGOL happened in Burroughs
ALGOL 58 and Fortran influenced the design of BALGOL
Read more about BALGOL on the web: 1. 2.

Example from the web:

INTEGER I..., J..., K..., L..., M..., N...$
BOOLEAN KEEP, LAST$
REAL MAT..., JOULES$
REAL OTHERWISE$
FUNCTION TORADS(DEGREES) = DEGREES . 3.1415926/180$
FUNCTION PYTHAGOREAN(A, B) = SQRT(A*2 + B*2)$
FOR I = 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, (13, 7, 99), 101, (103, 1, 125)$
   A(I) = I$

UNTIL A > 125 OR OUTTAHERE$
   BEGIN
   OUTTAHERE = A EQL 77$
   A = A + 3
   END$

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example
Conditionals	✓	EITHER IF A > B$ FWD = 1$ OTHERWISE$ FWD = 0$
Assignment	✓	ALPHA = BETA = GAMMA = 2DELTA + 1$
Expressions	✓	ALPHA + BETA / GAMMA
Functions	✓	FUNCTION TORADS(DEGREES) = DEGREES . 3.1415926/180$
Lists	✓	ARRAY MONTHDAYS(12) = (31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31)$
Booleans	✓
Floats	✓
Integers	✓