Re: mental architecture models, Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?
7 Jul
2024
7 Jul
'24
7:57 p.m.
From: Steve Jenkin
C wasn't the first standardised coding language,
FORTRAN & COBOL at
least were before it
There were a ton; Algol-60 is the most imppotant one I can think of.
(I was thinking that Algol-60 was probably an important precursor to BCPL,
which was the predecessor to C, but Richards' first BCPL paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1476793.1476880
"BCPL: A tool for compiler writing and system programming" doesn't call it
out, only CPL. However, CPL does admit its dues to Algol-60: "CPL is to a
large extent based on ALGOL 60".)
Noel
7 Jul
7 Jul
10:43 p.m.
New subject: mental architecture models, Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?
It appears that Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> said:
Only sort of. It didn't have a standard concrete representation, and
it didn't have any I/O, so it was fine for portable elegant numerical
solutions to partial differential equations, but hopeless for portably
reading in a list of numbers and printing the sum. In 1964 they
defined what were supposed to be standard I/O routines but it was too
little too late.
Wirth's Algol W and Pascal were supposed to fix that but Pascal never
was all that portable in practice.
R's,
John
From: Steve
Jenkin
C wasn't the first standardised coding
language, FORTRAN & COBOL at
least were before it
There were a ton; Algol-60 is the most imppotant one I can think of.
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