Dawn there's a whole new career writing "The History of Each Bleeping Language Element" or something like that.
Who came up with the idea that LOCATE meant... find a string in this string. Who came up with the idea that ! meant NOT And in what languages did all of these occur? Can we actually trace all of the Y-DNA strings back fifty years..... For many eons I had my old Fortran 77 book lying about, probably right next to QuickBasic and DOS Basic. They might even still be here, buried under two feet of dust. Will -----Original Message----- From: Dawn Wolthuis <[email protected]> To: U2 Users List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 1:25 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Pick History PrimeOS was originally written in Fortran (then later I thought it was C -- was it PL/I?) --dawn On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Clive Hills <[email protected]> wrote: > I note that PrimOS written by Prime was done in later iterations in PL/1. > Projects like UV/UD and others originated on Prime. > I think it's likely that some knowledge of PL/I existed. > Clive > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
