Editing 1960 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* August – [[Edsger W. Dijkstra]] and [[:nl:Jaap Zonneveld|Jaap A. Zonneveld]] produce the first (X1) implementation of the [[ALGOL 60]] [[programming language]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kruseman Aretz|first1=F.E.J.|chapter=The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica X1|title=Software Engineering|series=History of Computer Science|publisher=Centrum Wiskunde; Informatica|location=Amsterdam|date=2003-06-30|chapter-url=http://oai.cwi.nl/oai/asset/4155/04155D.pdf|access-date=2013-03-19|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191208/http://oai.cwi.nl/oai/asset/4155/04155D.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.dijkstrascry.com/node/4|title=Dijkstra's Rallying Cry for Generalization: the Advent of the Recursive Procedure, late 1950s–early 1960s|last=Daylight|first=E. G.|journal=[[The Computer Journal]]|year=2011|doi=10.1093/comjnl/bxr002|volume=54|issue=11|pages=1756–1772|citeseerx=10.1.1.366.3916}}</ref>
* [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]] of [[MIT]] publishes the [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] programming language.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine|last=McCarthy|first=John|journal=[[Communications of the ACM]]|volume=3|issue=4|pages=184–195|doi=10.1145/367177.367199|year=1960|citeseerx=10.1.1.422.5235|s2cid=1489409}}</ref>