11 May
2010
11 May
'10
7:50 a.m.
yes it has actually, since some of those pages came to light.
it's entirely possible that valtrep was "purpose-built" for the systems it
ran on.
even the dates I can find of 1970 still push it back newer than fortran from the 50s
havent seen direct links from ieee etc on any excess verbage.
there's almost no historical information on it at all, or on the computers it ran it
(at least not much).
the world may never know, I'm ok with that, but Fred will probably raise a fuss...
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a few (dozen)
replies back someone supplied a link to some message threads
that contained some limited code samples.
but there wasn't enough there to really say anything except it was very
fortran-like
Has it not yet occurred to you that this language/tool/product may have been
based on Fortran, rather than the other way round?