20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
5:51 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I am just old enough to have been paid to program in
FORTRAN, but I'm
really glad I didn't have to do much of it. Besides lifting
programming out of its primordial foundations, John Backus gave us the
platform from which ADVENT sprang. No disrepect to Grace Hopper
intended, but can you imagine trying to write a text adventure in
COBOL?
It is a 'text adventure' to write anything in COBOL.
It does seem that all the early programing languages back then
were ( and still is ) very hard to write compilers for.
-ethan