Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Sep 21 16:33:53 CDT 2015


On 09/21/2015 01:37 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:

> I wrote X.25 software in Fortran:-(. We had some machine specific
> routines to allow the Fortran code to wait for a packet to arrive.
> There was also a huge vector of strings with matching integer arrays
> that allowed them to be chained together, and to have types allocated
> to them There were also a large number of "INCLUDE" files with a
> parameters which defined the structure of data stored in the
> character vectors....


PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN.

--Chuck



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