[retrac]

> we might be stuck writing code in a fossilized language lovingly called Plankalkül 58 by its inventors

Substitute ALGOL 58 and that's pretty much what happened. You can't trust those Germans with language design!

[usrusr]

Haha, got me, I was just picking any "year used to name a language version" suffix at random, without realizing what corner of computing history this one is associated with. Is there anbody from that era who didn't have their own ALGOL?