Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Mark Weaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Didn't anyone use Assembler back then? I thought that came before
> COBOL?

Indeed it did. The first high level language in general use was
Backus's FORTRAN, although he himself did not originally envisage it
as being a portable language, rather that every machine would have an
*equivalent*. The first version of FORTRAN (IBM704) had a number of
machine specific features.

COBOL and LISP both date from around 1959.

> Personally I love Assembler.

I believe help is available...:-)

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