IAL

See also: ial and -ial

English

Proper noun

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.

Anagrams

• Ali, LIA, Lai, ail, ali-, lai