algol w การใช้

• ALGOL W's syntax is built on a subset of the EBCDIC character set.
• Niklaus Wirth based his own ALGOL W on ALGOL 60 before moving to develop Pascal.
• Pascal stems directly from ALGOL W, while it shared some new ideas with ALGOL 68.
• The " Algol W Language Description " defines Algol W in an affix grammar that resembles BNF . This grammar was a precursor of the Van Wijngaarden grammar.
• The " Algol W Language Description " defines Algol W in an affix grammar that resembles BNF . This grammar was a precursor of the Van Wijngaarden grammar.
• In ALGOL 60 reserved words are distinct lexical items, but in ALGOL W they are merely sequences of characters, and do not need to be Pascal and later languages.