1 May
2024
1 May
'24
11:55 p.m.
On 5/1/24 16:37, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
How much of the original BASIC language endures? You know,
single-character or character-followed-by-number variable names,
floating point only, etc.?
Yet FORTRAN, the granddaddy of them all, continues on... It should be
noted that FORTRAN celebrates its 70th anniversary this year:
https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/
To the best of my knowledge no supercomputer application code has ever
been written in BASIC, but I"m willing to be disabused of that notion.
--Chuck
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?