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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: *66, *68, *77, etc...
Summary: Here's my guess...
Message-ID: <628@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 89 17:43:56 GMT
References: <6377@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <6377@wpi.wpi.edu>, jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
> Which was the first 'year' language?  I.E., like algol68, fortran66, and
> forth79 ?
> 
> I bet it's fortran,  but what year?



Bet it's not - Algol 60  (the successor to the first Algol, which did
not go by year number...) is earlier than all year-numbered FORTRANs.

Note: Some people referred to Algol 60 simply as 'Algol' just as many
people often referred to FORTRAN 66 as FORTRAN IV. The first language
not to also have a yearless name might well be Algol 68. 

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt