C, please die,

From: Peter Corlett Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:07 AM Pl/I (nee PL/1, but the spelling changed with the Optimizing and Checkout compilers) is (was?) immensely flexible. I wrote a utility in it for the UChicago Computation Center which took as its input an SVS JCL deck (for the Amdahl V7) and output an equivalent MVS deck (for the 3031 which was to replace the Amdahl system). And Pascal was flexible enough that I was able to write a disassembler/ dump program for PDP-10 binaries whose output was acceptable input to Macro-20 (or Macro-10, but I wasn't working on Tops-10 at the time). I did that work before the JCL utility. I don't pretend to have explored all the dark corners of Perl, but I first learned it in order to add features to Bugzilla. Later, I used it for exploratory forensic programming when decoding DECtapes images which had intentionally been obscured. One of these days I should probably learn C and Python. Or not. Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/