In
<93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3bfbbcd...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us>,
on 10/07/2011
at 01:11 PM, "Roberts, John J" <jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us> said:
>This was all very tongue in cheek, but much of what I said is based
>upon my reality back in 1970. I did indeed work on a 512KB S360/65
>system running release 19. And seven concurrent jobs might have
>actually been possible since the standard region was 56K and we
>wrote a lot of code using overlays.
Leaving 120 KiB for the system? Again, MFT II is more plausible than
MVT.
>I'm surprised the old-timers didn't comment on my mention of APL.
Why?
>This was the original "write-only" language
It was possible to write readanle APL. The write-only code was part of
the hacker culture, not intrinsic to the language.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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