Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Chuck Guzis]

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