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ELAN was specifically developed to be used in the systematic teaching of programming to students in secondary education. As such it had very much the same goals as BASIC, but given that it was developed a decade later, and with one of the authors of the Algol 68 report leading the development group, it was much richer.

Some information for those interested is still at http://www.cs.ru.nl/elan/ and there's an implementation for the language there as well.

An interesting tidbit is that ELAN was used for the EUMEL system by Jochen Liedtke, who took what he learned to develop the L3 and later L4 microkernels; see also https://6xq.net/eumel/