[dalke]

As my introduction to Algol-like languages was through Pascal, the joke completely passed me by.

[dllthomas]

I could see that putting you in a place where encountering people misusing "Algol-like" to mean C-like, when trying to distinguish from something more like Algol, would be extra noticeable and annoying.

Likely you have just been lucky :)

[dalke]

I hang around computational chemists. They wouldn't say "Algol-like" in the first place. So, double lucky!