2 May
2024
2 May
'24
9:06 a.m.
I learnt to program at uni on prompt-48, an 8048 development system.
Hand-coded assembly, entered in hex and saved to EPROM. Later I moved to
z80 with an assembler hosted on a pdp 11/34. Later still I had to do a
customer project specified to be written in BASIC on an apple II (no square
brackets on this phone keyboard!). I learned much respect for people who
had to code in that crummy inflexible language :). Briefly learned some
pascal then with much relief discovered C. Not really found anything better
for the things I like to work on.
On Thu, 2 May 2024, 07:08 CAREY SCHUG via cctalk, <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I recall IITRAN for the IBM 7044, and am i correct
that there was an
IITRAN for the Univac 1108, which was significantly different?
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 05/01/2024 6:37 PM CDT Sellam Abraham via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive
> programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of
others,
> based on FORTRAN-ish syntax. not to forget
APL, which was a thing
apart.
--Chuck
And where are all those other languages today?
I rest my case.
;)
Sellam