Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...

while his colleague Adriaan van Wijngaarden’s proposal for ALGOL X would go on to become ALGOL 68. Despite the somewhat competitive nature, there was no bad blood between the parties involved ...

In this artist's view, the larger, cooler star in the Algol pair deeply eclipses the smaller, brighter star every 2.9 days. We can easily see the eclipse as a dramatic change in Algol's brightness.