9 Nov
2006
9 Nov
'06
8:49 a.m.
On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Chris M wrote:
I had thought there were more lines of code written
in Cobol then in any other language (up until a
certain point anyway, maybe ~2000 A.D). All that
business stuph running on Big Blue iron and whatnot.
"Stuph"? There are pills for that now, you know.
Wasn't Smalltalk the first OO language? I
conversed
with a dude who did some work w/another early OO
language, Modula-2. He wrote a BBS program for a '286
utilizing hi-performance serial cards (many of which
had onboard 80186's) that could handle 6,000
simultaneous chatters in 256 rooms. Tried to sell it
to GEnie, but they decided on using some mini for the
task.
I don't recall Modula-2 being OO...?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL