On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:21:46PM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:48 AM, John Mullan <[email protected]> wrote: > > My first language to code in was Fortran. > > Same here. Took it in College in 1972. I'm pretty sure i failed it as > the teacher and I ad a major blow out one day, i I left the class.
Back when I started you programmed machines mostly in assembler (or, if you were lucky, autocode of some kind). High-level languages did exist, but weren't very common. The first machines I saw that was mostly programmed in anything other than low-level code were the TSS/8 system, programmed in Focal, and an IBM 1130 in the engineering department, which had FORTRAN II. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
