Algol, and its formal EBNF description, is definitely the easiest language I have ever worked with. Burroughs, now Unisys, had an immensely powerful combination of true stack based hardware, a compact OS that supported parallel running across systems as well as programs, and various tailored flavours of Algol for comms, database and other use. A great development environment, decades ahead of its time. Alas C and Unix were cheaper and Burroughs never really understood that there was a market other than big tin users.
But yes, even now when I write Ruby or Python or Go, I miss the clarity of Algol.
It's a very nice site. Be good to have author's name and comments in normal text while keeping italics for the book title. Now to play with it some more!
I like this as a disrupter of rote and a way of getting many eyes rapidly in the same place.
Now we just need a Twitch channel...