13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
7:42 p.m.
On 04/13/2017 05:47 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote:
Then my dad got transferred to Chicago and that high
school had
?access? to IITRAN. By access, that meant punching cards, and
waiting for the teacher to load in batch and waiting for the results.
Losing the interactive aspect overshadowed the language features.
To be fair, many Chicago-area high schools did have interactive (TTY)
access in the 60s to IITRAN. IITRAN TTY access extended far beyond the
Chicago area.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-iitran-1899.html
Not a bad language for the time. Probably better than BASIC.
--Chuck