Question

2. What were the goals of the developers of Pseudo-Code, Fortran, and Algol? How are they similar and how do they differ?

Answer 1

The answer to the above problem is as follows:

Goal of developers of Pseudo-Code:

Pseudo code is not actually a proper programming language , it is rather a simple and easy way to say what each line of code should do using a high level language like english which is understandable for all.

The goal behind its development was to allow the developers to express themselves freely in plain langauge which can the be converted to an actual code in a simple manner than a flowchart.

Goal of developers of Fortran:

The objective behind its development was to create a programming language that is simple to learn, can do a wide variety of mathematical computations and the code does not have to be dependent on the machine it runs. In this way, it forms the basis of many scientific and numeric compuing.

Goal of developers of Algol:

If we analyse deeply, we will learn that algol was developed to correct the shortcoming of fortran and later it went on to become the basis of many programming languages.

Algol was developed to encourage block struture of a program which will enable developers to create smaller blocks or components of code and the go on to build large programms.

Similarities :

All the above were developed to make programming simpler and make developer's think in an easier manner. They are all made simple to learn and not complex. They were also the earliest developed so they had to be simple and the common thing between them is that they all went ahead to become the basis of many modern programming lamgauges.

Difference :

The difference between them is that pseudo code is not an actual programming language which runs on a compiler or interpreter. It is just the way of writing the working of code in plain simple langauge, so that it becomes easier to convert them into actual code.

Where as fortran and algol are actually programming language.

Now fortran differs from algol because algol supports blocks of code that has begin..end code marks which was not present in fortran. and therefore it paved way for modern modular structure of code.

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