On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Dennis Boone <[email protected]> wrote: > Poduska bully-wheedled his operating system engineers into using a > compiled language in the beginning, but it was FORTRAN at first. PL/P > didn't come along until '78 or so >
Interesting. With Apollo they went back to Fortran (Ratfor actually). Bill was always good at seeing the direction of future (one of the best people I have known at doing that), but he did not always get the actual technology that won in the end.
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