26 Jan
1998
26 Jan
'98
2:57 p.m.
First ever? I believe was ForTran. Which was just that formula
translation from math formulae, i.e. trajectories, over to ML.
But I guess there were probably many local tranlators and interpreters
for developed locally. It was just that ForTran was a Navy thing..
-Mike
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Also, what was the first programming language (I
mean not binary or
assembly)?
Off the top of my head COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language), followed
shortly thereafter by FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation). One was for Business
the other for Science, I'll leave it up to you to decide which was which :^)
This of course assumes you don't consider a box of short lenghts of wire a
language.
Another thing: CP/M was run on just about
everything, usually with
about 64K ram. How is it that MS-DOS blew up to about 384K? What
did they put in there?
Face it Billy boy is an incompetent thief, and a strong believer in code bloat.
Zane
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