13 Jan
2025
13 Jan
'25
3:57 p.m.
Note in his "FOCAL Notes and Background
<http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/FOCAL/index#Merrill2024>”, Rick
Merrill said:
"Back in Maynard I took an editor, a floating point package and the specs for the
JOHNNIAC Open
Shop System (JOSS) and ideas from the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility
Multi-Programming
System (MUMPS) and wrote an interpreter that would do the user's job on the spot and
interactively"
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:33:46 +0100
From: Hans-Ulrich Hölscher <vaxorcist(a)googlemail.com
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Sorry, no:
BASIC 1963
FOCAL 1968
Hans-Ulrich Hölscher <vaxorcist(a)googlemail.com
<mailto:vaxorcist@googlemail.com>> schrieb am Mo., 13. Jan.
2025, 10:31:
> Isn't FOCAL older than BASIC?
>
> Mike Parr via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> schrieb am Mo., 13. Jan.
> 2025, 10:03:
>
>> I wondered about any influences from BASIC?