8 May
2010
8 May
'10
midnight
Dan Gahlinger wrote:
Fortran the first high-level language, I think that
would be open to
debate. Indeed, wikipedia says otherwise... and I quote:
The first high-level programming language to be designed for a
computer was Plankalk?l, developed for the German Z3 by Konrad Zuse
between 1943 and 1945.
LISP, COBOL and Algol are also mentioned during the 1950s, so "first"
is perhaps debateable. Do we count the programmable "Looms" ?
Only if they can count. :)
There are questions I can't answer at this time. I
can just say, from
memory, Valtrep was more "primitive" than Fortran, and yet, very
"fortran-like", as I said, if you could program Fortran, Valtrep
would be easy to pick up.
It seems to me unlikely, that you would have any other
high level
programs other than a possible assembler and link loader with a few
odd utility closed subroutines.
I can't find any information on it, nor can I find
any information on
the computer system it ran on (that's bad).
so to be fair, I'll mark this and file it as
"questionable"/"suspect"
until some evidence can be shown either way.
Dan.
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