Editing ALGOL (section)

===Legacy===
A significant contribution of the ALGOL 58 Report was to provide standard terms for programming concepts: statement, declaration, type, label, primary, block, and others.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last1=Bemer |first1=Bob |title=A Politico-Social History of Algol |url=https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/Bemer-Politico_Social_History_of_Algol.pdf |website=Computer History Museum |access-date=August 9, 2024}}</ref>

ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it. [[Tony Hoare]] remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors."<ref>[http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~bchandra/courses/papers/Hoare_Hints.pdf "Hints on Programming Language Design"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915033339/http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~bchandra/courses/papers/Hoare_Hints.pdf |date=15 September 2009}}, C.A.R. Hoare, December 1973. Page 27. (This statement is sometimes erroneously attributed to [[Edsger W. Dijkstra]], also involved in implementing the first ALGOL 60 [[compiler]].)</ref> The [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] programming language, a variant of [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] that adopted the block structure and lexical scope of ALGOL, also adopted the wording "Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme" for its standards documents in homage to ALGOL.<ref name="r3rs">{{cite web |editor-last=Rees |editor-first=Jonathan |editor2-last=Clinger |editor2-first=William |editor3-last=Abelson |editor3-first=Hal |editor3-link=Hal Abelson |last=Dybvig |first=R. K. |title=Revised(3) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, (Dedicated to the Memory of ALGOL 60) |url=http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-reports/r3rs-html/r3rs_toc.html |access-date=20 October 2009 | display-authors=etal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114060759/http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-reports/r3rs-html/r3rs_toc.html |archive-date=14 January 2010 | df=dmy-all}}</ref>