28 Sep
2014
28 Sep
'14
10:55 a.m.
On 09/28/2014 09:51 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote:
Prime was never able to completely shake FORTRAN. Indeed, you could
still find TWO versions of most system "insert" files--a FORTRAN one and
a PL/I one.
PL/I attempted to solve the language quarrel by including everything
It seems to me
that the OS for Prime minis (PRIMOS) was implemented in
FORTRAN, at least initially.
possibly, but ISTR that when Prime tried to sell us some 750s their salesman said that
the OS was written in PL/1. from several languages, resulting in a language
that's despised by
everyone. A great opportunity for the corporate
"coding standards" types.
Fred wrote:
I'm having a hard enough time wrapping my mind
around how to get a
360 to process a card that starts with "/*"
Good one, Fred!
--Chuck