3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
2:32 p.m.
On 3 Jan 2012 at 13:41, Richard wrote:
They're all turing equivalent, so you could write
the same thing in
Brainfuck as you could in FORTRAN, but I'm pretty sure you would
rather work in FORTAN 66. The same comparison works with modern
languages to put FORTRAN 66 on the losing side
So, who's gotten Scheme to run on a 4K PDP-8 with only an ASR-33 for
I/O?
How many languages were first written in FORTRAN? SNOBOL, for sure,
as well as PL/M. Several FORTRAN compilers that I know of were
written in FORTRAN for the most part. Quite a number of cross-
assemblers were also written in FORTRAN.
--Chuck