About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:

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
>


Okay, that is missing there.


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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