Hi,
49 years ago I 'stumbled' over Simula 67 (see video 1), well, at the university "informatik 1"
course. I had gotten an Algol60 book given to me by my math teacher 2 years earlier. The student a
year older learned PL/1. WE had an /168 and the Simula 67 system from the NCC (you can find it on
the CBTTAPE, the turnkey system and elsewhere.
To assembler: On error, you got a nicely formatted storage dump of objects. One
motivation
After two years and the first graduation (Vordiplom) with punched cards etc (but using the MFT like
a PC), a got a job at at the CS research center GMD: MVS, TSO SPF, another universe. It would take
to much here to explain all the reason why I did a lot of assembler (because of this I was able to
work in an internship at the swiss Colony Computing Center), but I always more than mildly disliked
aka hated the non structured way of assembled. My work was to write a fast program to create
microfiches (block letters, index pages). The result were a set of structured programming macros
(also on the cbttape).
Later with UCLA/Mail, the formatting of "objects" on traces, dumps. and stack of function. Just
read the "assembler" code (CBTTAPE).
Anyway, here some nice videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH-q2m5sb04
actually, why is smalltalk so close to objective C. Because of a Byte Magazine
cover page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBOvqMfPoI
Some are provocative. There are many others. I really like "going virtually" to
these conferences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI&t=45s
Sorry for this side track
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