ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) (06/11/91)
In article <22724@paperboy.OSF.ORG> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes: }|> Several languages were available, most commonly used was Fortran (looking }|> at the listing of the compiler was an experience in itself :-) In }|> addition, there was an Algol-68 compiler, APL, At least 3 assemblers (most }|> subsets of the largest one), } }You left out the BCPL port I did :-). Additionally, we did all of the }DBMS/TP application programming in COBOL. Stop snickering, you at the back. Ah, BCPL...I remember it fondly. I've often wondered how many BCPL hackers there are out there, since the transport tape was rather freely available to universities, and how many machines ended up with a port of BCPL on them. I've ported the language to several machines myself, including a Vax, a Z80 (using OCODE as a threaded-interpreted language) and a Z8000 (ditto). Of course, the Z80 and Z8000 used a cross-compiler on a mainframe, but you can't have everything, eh? In fact, seems to me I recall a Xerox port I once worked with...did you ever release it? It must have come from somewhere! Lance -- Lance T. Franklin +----------------------------------------------+ (ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org) | "You want I should bop you with this here | NC Microproducts, Inc. | Lollipop?!?" The Fat Fury | Richardson, Texas +----------------------------------------------+