9 Feb
2021
9 Feb
'21
5:01 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:21 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I know that I'm gonna be outclassed here, but I
taught myself BASIC,
ALGOL, and FORTRAN (ugh! well, it was WATFOR then WATFIV) from my school
days in the late 60s onwards.
Many much older and more experienced than I on this list. I'm a relative
youngster that started in the late 1960s. So Dave, I have to say, ditto,
but I will add a couple of assemblers to the early list (360 BAL, HP2000,
and PDP-8 and 10). My father showed me the GE-635 assembler in
probably 1968, but I never managed to write anything meaningful in it.
COBOL tried to be drilled into me, but I firmly rejected it (but for some
odd reason I still know it, but deny all knowledge of it).
Funny, I dodged COBOL, but not PL/1 and APL. With the latter, I maintained
the York/APL interpreter on TSS for a bit. I also saw a number of
languages on the 10's like SAIL, SNOBOL, and over course BLISS. All before
I saw C on the Fifth Edition of UNIX. As I've said before, when I first
saw it, I was not impressed. Little did I know Dennis and Ken would rot my
brain - (and I'm thankful that they did).
Clem
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