IAL

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IAL

  1. Initialism of International Auxiliary Language.
  2. (computer languages, obsolete) Initialism of International Algebraic Language, later named ALGOL.
    • 2020, Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
      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.

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