Au contraire ... The IF THEN ELSE and DO WHILE structures did exist at that timeframe in a language called COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language). As an undergrad at MIT and an MBA student at Cornell, writing applications in COBOL and System/360 Assembler language more than paid for my tuition and my photography habit.
Ironically, I don't know anything that can be done in any of today's "modern" programming languages that couldn't be done in either Assembler or COBOL or some combination of same a hell of a lot more efficiently! Most of today's software done with such "modern" programming languages is relatively buggy, slow, and bloated compared to what we did back then. > -----Original Message----- > From: lists.frameusers.com > On Behalf Of Jim Light > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Funny > > I too remember typing in my college programming jobs on an > 029 Key Punch > and submitting them over the counter at the computer center. That old > IBM 360/67 had less processing power than my laptop. A "high-Level" > language was FORTRAN. C++ didn't exist. In fact, there were no > if-then-else, do-while, and other constructs until they invented > Structured FORTRAN. > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
