08-10-2021, 05:46 PM
(08-10-2021, 03:48 PM)philrandal Wrote:(08-09-2021, 01:58 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: I've seen it said (stealing from an old quora.com post) that ALGOL is the Latin of programming languages---like Latin, it's dead; it was influential; it was pioneering. This witticism is easier to appreciate if you've actually used ALGOL (way back in the last century everybody published their algorithms in ALGOL; it was invented for this purpose by an ACM committee). I used the ALGOL compiler on the Maniac III computer at the University of Chicago back in the day.
I learnt programming Algol 60 on an Elliott 503 at my university, followed by Fortran and Assembler on an IBM 1130, and then Burroughs Algol on a B6700 (a wonderful machine).
Phil
This is like counting rings on a tree trunk. We're definitely dating ourselves
I'm still young enough to remember the many hardware and software environments I've worked in. Trouble is, I've gotten old enough to expect people want the benefit of my experience. You can imagine the eye-rolls I get from my grandkids and their friends.
Regards,
Kent
