ALGOL 60

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Aliases: Algol-60, ALGOL60
Provenance: commit 5148847a73 · authored 2026-02-05T23:50:25+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet

Sources mentioning this language

3 sources · pl_id: pl/algol-60-2
LLM (this repo) · 1WikipediaWikidata · Q1209759

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Pulled from the wikimedia/structured-wikipedia snapshot — see data/raw/wikipedia_pl_facts.*.jsonl and pl_fact.csv for the long-table provenance.

Paradigmsprocedural · imperative · structured
Typingstatic, strong
Designed byBackus · Bauer · Green · Katz · McCarthy · Naur · Perlis · Rutishauser · Samelson · van Wijngaarden · Vauquois · Wegstein · Woodger
First appeared1960
Influenced byALGOL 58

Related languages

ALGOL (0.65)ALGOL 68 (0.37)ALGOL 68R (0.36)ALGOL 68-R (0.35)ALGOL-T (0.32)

Real programs from Software Heritage

No SWH evidence indexed yet for this language. (Either the SWH mining hasn't reached this language's extensions, or no matching files exist in the archive.)

Programs collected by LLM agents experimental · unverified

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Quicksort

Provenance: commit 5148847a73 · authored 2026-02-05T23:50:25+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet · WebSearch disabled
code.alg · added: 2026-02-05T12:00:00Z
begin
  procedure quicksort(A, low, high);
    value low, high;
    integer low, high;
    real array A;
  begin
    integer i, j;
    real pivot, temp;

    if low < high then
    begin
      pivot := A[low];
      i := low;
      j := high;

      for j := j step -1 until i do
      begin
        while A[i] < pivot do i := i + 1;
        while A[j] > pivot do j := j - 1;

        if i < j then
        begin
          temp := A[i];
          A[i] := A[j];
          A[j] := temp;
        end;
      end;

      temp := A[low];
      A[low] := A[j];
      A[j] := temp;

      quicksort(A, low, j - 1);
      quicksort(A, j + 1, high);
    end;
  end quicksort;
end

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