[AnimalMuppet]

If I understand correctly, ALGOL had better ways of structuring code into functions than FORTRAN did. This let ALGOL do what eventually was called "structured programming", and FORTRAN do what was called "plate of spaghetti" programming.

This is not the same as saying that EWD thought that ALGOL was good...

[User23]

I imagine he had at least some fondness for Algol 60 since he is co-credited with writing the first compiler for it.

[AnimalMuppet]

That might give you fondness. Or disgust. In his case, I have no data about which one won.