Definition of "IAL"

IAL

proper noun
1. Initialism of International Auxiliary Language.
2. (computer languages, obsolete) Initialism of International Algebraic Language, later named ALGOL.
  Quotations
  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.
  2020, Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing, Oxford University Press, page 88