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Word: algol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Computer Games | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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