Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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

Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided 

 
Assembler can be fun.

 
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...)