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====ALGOL 60 family==== {{main|ALGOL 60}} Since ALGOL 60 had no I/O facilities, there is no portable [[hello world program]] in ALGOL. The next three examples are in Burroughs Extended Algol. The first two direct output at the interactive terminal they are run on. The first uses a character array, similar to C. The language allows the array identifier to be used as a pointer to the array, and hence in a REPLACE statement. {{sxhl|2=m2|1= BEGIN FILE F(KIND=REMOTE); EBCDIC ARRAY E[0:11]; REPLACE E BY "HELLO WORLD!"; WRITE(F, *, E); END. }} A simpler program using an inline format: {{sxhl|2=m2|1= BEGIN FILE F(KIND=REMOTE); WRITE(F, <"HELLO WORLD!">); END. }} An even simpler program using the Display statement. Note that its output would end up at the system console ('SPO'): {{sxhl|2=m2|1= BEGIN DISPLAY("HELLO WORLD!") END.}} An alternative example, using Elliott Algol I/O is as follows. Elliott Algol used different characters for "open-string-quote" and "close-string-quote", represented here by {{color box|rgba(255,255,255,0)|border=silver|[[‘]]}} and {{color box|rgba(255,255,255,0)|border=silver|[[Single quotation mark|’]]}}. {{sxhl|2=pascal|1= program HiFolks; begin print ‘Hello world’ end; }} Below is a version from Elliott 803 Algol (A104). The standard Elliott 803 used five-hole paper tape and thus only had upper case. The code lacked any quote characters so £ (UK Pound Sign) was used for open quote and ? (Question Mark) for close quote. Special sequences were placed in double quotes (e.g£. £L?? produced a new line on the teleprinter). HIFOLKS' BEGIN PRINT £HELLO WORLD£L??' END' The [[ICT 1900 series]] Algol I/O version allowed input from paper tape or punched card. Paper tape 'full' mode allowed lower case. Output was to a line printer. The open and close quote characters were represented using '(' and ')' and spaces by %.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icl1900.co.uk/techpub/tp3340.djvu|title=ICL 1900 series: Algol Language|publisher=ICL Technical Publication 3340|year=1965}}</ref> 'BEGIN' WRITE TEXT('('HELLO%WORLD')'); 'END'
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