17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
noon
On 03/17/2017 11:41 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Not quite true. ALGOL was the first choice for a
couple of
architectures: Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes.
And I supposed you could claim that status for Bliss in the case of
VAXen, though in a different sense there was a whole set of high
level languages that were there day 1 because the architecture
envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).
I'll also consider that there are probably other exceptions. Did
FORTRAN or RPG have the honor of "first implemented" on the S/360 Model
20? My gut says RPG.
--Chuck