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Re: learning languages (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:21:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Also: FORTRAN (begun in 1954, first reference manual published in 1956,
> > and first production version released in 1957) was an IBM project. COBOL
> > (begun in 1955, released in 1959) was largely a US Navy project, and also
> > somewhat an effort to demonstrate that computers didn't have to be used
> > only for number-crunching.
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> Wasn't COBOL started in 1959?
I think that's when it was first released, right? Hopper began working on
it much earlier than that, yes? 1955 was what I read somewhere a couple
hours ago.
> By the time COBOL was developed, my dad (1)
> was writing FORTRAN compilers for whatever platform he needed one on. Or,
> so the legend goes...
> [...]
> 1. AHA! The source of my pro-FORTRAN biases! :-P
Hey cool -- so you're a second-gen too? We'll have to invent a secret
handshake. ;-)
Hmm, makes me wonder if there are any second-gen LEGO-heads around here or
if they're still to young to figure out news...?
--Todd
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| (...) Oy vey, der camps. I alvays vorget der camps. Und der suits und der schlide-rules and der schtuff. (...) Wasn't COBOL started in 1959? By the time COBOL was developed, my dad (1) was writing FORTRAN compilers for whatever platform he needed (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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