I learnt to program at uni on prompt-48, an 8048 development system. Hand-coded assembly, entered in hex and saved to EPROM. Later I moved to z80 with an assembler hosted on a pdp 11/34. Later still I had to do a customer project specified to be written in BASIC on an apple II (no square brackets on this phone keyboard!). I learned much respect for people who had to code in that crummy inflexible language :). Briefly learned some pascal then with much relief discovered C. Not really found anything better for the things I like to work on.
On Thu, 2 May 2024, 07:08 CAREY SCHUG via cctalk, <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I recall IITRAN for the IBM 7044, and am i correct that there was an > IITRAN for the Univac 1108, which was significantly different? > > <pre>--Carey</pre> > > > On 05/01/2024 6:37 PM CDT Sellam Abraham via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > wrote: > > > > > To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive > > > programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of > others, > > > based on FORTRAN-ish syntax. not to forget APL, which was a thing > apart. > > > > > > --Chuck > > > > > > > And where are all those other languages today? > > > > I rest my case. > > > > ;) > > > > Sellam >
