Re: actual text in programming languages, Unicode in strings

According to Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de>:

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:

It appears that Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de> said:

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:
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COBOL is older than Fortran,

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Certainly not (unless you mean "Fortran" in the Fortran 90+ sense).
FORTRAN was released 1957, and the first Cobol specification
appears to have been passed in 1960.

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I was thinking of Flow-Matic which is arguably older than
Fortran and is where most of COBOL came from.  Grace Hopper
was entirely familar with mathematical notation and said that
Univac's business customers didn't like it.

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Seems that Flow-Matic became publically available in 1958 and was
"substantially complete" by 1959, so FORTRAN came earlier.

Hopper said she started working on it in 1953 and there was an
internal version in 1955. Maybe it's not older than Fortran but it
certainly isn't much newer and the two were going on at the same time.
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