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Modula-2! Seems like Algol-60 should be next.


Why not Algol 68? You can get a modern implementation here: https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html


And of course there is a VSCode plugin for it as well.


The documentation for it is great too


GNU already has an Algol-60 implementation, albeit not as a GCC front-end:

https://www.gnu.org/software/marst/


If we're going backwards in time, Algol-W should be on the list (there's a transpiler called "awe", but no actual frontend for gcc/llvm/qbe).




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