Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : peter_flass (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Peter Flass)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.misc
Date : 24. Sep 2024, 23:37:01
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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
On 2024-09-24, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 
On 24/09/2024 14:11, Sn!pe wrote:
 
No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?  It was contemporaneous
with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL>
 
If you look at Algol, it really spawned the likes of B,  C, and Pascal
and so on . Its use of local variables being a key feature. They
completely replaced it.
 
At the risk of planting flame bait <nudge, nudge>, here in North
America Algol was generally considered the domain of computer
science weenies, while FORTRAN and COBOL were used for applications
in the Real World [tm] (science/engineering and business, respectively).
Oh, and don't forget RPG...
 
Well, except for the Burroughs Large systems, of course, where
Algol (in various extended forms) was used both as a systems programming
language (e.g. for the operating system itself) and as an application
language.
 
Still is.
 
 

Didn’t HP use ALGOL?

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Pete

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