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IAL en · PROPN

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1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of International Auxiliary Language.
   alt of International Auxiliary Language
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete) Initialism of International Algebraic Language, later named ALGOL.
   alt of International Algebraic Language
   alt of later named ALGOL
   • Between 1958 and 1960, a collaboration was initiated between the Association for Computing Machinery and the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik for the definition of a universal algorithmic language, first denoted IAL, later ALGOL58, and finally ALGOL60. 2020, Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88: