Historical reasons, possibly? FORTRAN was started by an IBM committee (US corporation). COBOL committee was mostly US companies and US Dept. of Defense (CODASYL). Lisp came from MIT. ALGOL is the exception, with both European (ETH Zurich) and US representation on its committee.
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Historical reasons, possibly? FORTRAN was started by an IBM committee (US corporation). COBOL committee was mostly US companies and US Dept. of Defense (CODASYL). Lisp came from MIT. ALGOL is the exception, with both European (ETH Zurich) and US representation on its committee.