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On 13/05/2023 08:13, Niklas Holsti wrote:

>> Pascal had them in 1970. Algol, I think, had them in 1960.
> 
> 
> Algol 60 did not have records, only arrays.
> 
> Algol W, a precursor to Pascal, had them in 1966.
> 
> Simula had them in 1967. (Wikipedia says "In 1966 C. A. R. Hoare 
> introduced the concept of record class construct".)
> 
> Algol 68 had them in 1968.
> 
> Pascal had them in 1970, as you say.
> 

What about COBOL and LISP?