On 03/17/2017 11:41 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > Not quite true. ALGOL was the first choice for a couple of > architectures: Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes. > And I supposed you could claim that status for Bliss in the case of > VAXen, though in a different sense there was a whole set of high > level languages that were there day 1 because the architecture > envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).
I'll also consider that there are probably other exceptions. Did FORTRAN or RPG have the honor of "first implemented" on the S/360 Model 20? My gut says RPG. --Chuck
