Chapter 2, Problem 18RQ

Explanation of Solution

Professional organization that designed ALGOL 60:

ALGOL 60 was the result for the need for a universal language for scientific applications The two professional organizations which together designed ALGOL 60 were:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); and,
• GAMM (a German acronym for Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics).

In 1954, Laning and Zierler algebraic system became operational and in 1957 FORTRAN became reality.

• Also some other languages like IT, MATH-MATIC and UNICODE also came into being.
• But these languages were growing upon single system architectures and this made communication among programmers difficult.
• In 1955, GAMM had formed a committee to develop one universal machine independent scientific language...