About programing, a general question

[Joep L. Blom]

On 17/12/10 15:47, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com
> <mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>     FORTRAN was the father, between them they gave birth to most of the
>     rest, with the best ones taking after their mother.
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>     Colin
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> http://www.osdata.com/programming/historylanguages.html
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> Regards,
> Parshwa Murdia
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Parsha,
Thanks for the link. It brought back a lot of memories!
I found however one omission.
In 1968 (or a year earlier) DEC (Digital Equipment Society) the producer 
of the 12- and 18 (and 36-) bit computers (resp. PDP-8, PDP-9 and 
PDP-10) delivered with their products (at least the PDP-8) a BASIC-like 
program called FOCAL (FOrmula CALculation) that was more advanced than 
BASIC as it had many of the concepts of FORTRAN but was - as was BASIC - 
an interpreted language which, in those days, took a much longer time to 
run than compiled programs.
Of course most programs were written in FORTRAN (which was standard in 
those days) and FOCAL was only for play and for small quick and dirty 
programs.
I wonder of others from the "oldies" on this list has reminiscences of 
that language.
Joep