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Algol

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Algol /ˈalgɒl/

▶noun an early, high-level computer programming language which was devised to carry out scientific calculations.

– origin 1950s: from algo(rithmic) + the initial letter of language.

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