FORTRAN is the most widely used scientific programming language. ALGOL is a more powerful language for scientific programming . COBOL is used for most commercial programming applications. LISP 1.5 is primarily a list-processing language.
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ALGOL, computer programming language designed by an international committee of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), led by Alan J. Perlis of Carnegie Mellon University , during 1958–60 for publishing algorithms, as well as for doing computations.
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