Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 2/25/25 4:03 PM, John Ames wrote:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:43:06 -0700
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided

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Assembler can be fun.

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Especially PDP-10 assembler. Wonderful instruction set.

 Need to play around with -10 assembler sometime.* The -11 architecture
is also very nice (if more limited for Large Programs) - not hard to
see why a number of microprocessor designers took inspiration from it.
 * (Having started on micros of the early '90s, the idea of a computing
   environment where assembly isn't just a systems-implementation thing
   but a first-class applications language is quite intriguing to me...)

   Well, that's how it was back in the good/bad old days  :-)