17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
12:19 p.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:27 AM
On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> and, although we don't know when YOU were
playing it, the march had
> been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to
> inspire Backus. Does that mean that Dan. might be right about it
> being the predecessor to FORTRAN?
Valdres March has been around for more than a
century--it's at least 113
years old.
So FORTRAN has some catching up to do.
It wasn't until the microcomputer era with BASIC,
I think that FORTRAN
wasn't the first HLL to be contemplated for a new architecture.
"I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know
it will be called Fortran."
--Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award,
in 1982.