ALGOL was developed jointly by a committee of European and American computer scientists in a meeting in 1958 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (cf. ALGOL 58).
Walter Saxer at the ETH, and from 1945 to 1948, a mathematics teacher in Glarisegg and Trogen. In 1948, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from ETH with a well-received thesis on complex analysis.
It was much more than 'one meeting' until ALGOL58 came to life. It was a statement from the field of scientific computing against IBM and FORTRAN. Developing ALGOL in a committee slowed things down and finally led to the end.
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