On 04/13/2017 05:47 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote: > Then my dad got transferred to Chicago and that high school had > “access” to IITRAN. By access, that meant punching cards, and > waiting for the teacher to load in batch and waiting for the results. > > > Losing the interactive aspect overshadowed the language features.
To be fair, many Chicago-area high schools did have interactive (TTY) access in the 60s to IITRAN. IITRAN TTY access extended far beyond the Chicago area. http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-iitran-1899.html Not a bad language for the time. Probably better than BASIC. --Chuck
