How can Bombastic Bill have worked all those years and never worked in a RACF shop? VSE shops never had RACF, however, RACF has had the Lion's share for years.
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 5:32 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Yes, assemblers came first, but < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laning_and_Zierler_system> was well before > FORTRAN. I' not sure whether to cite the earlier < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl>, as it was never > implemented. > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> > Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 3:02 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Simple request from chatGPT to write assembler program. > > Ok ... not quire correct, but: > the first ASSEMBLER languages go back to the years 1947 to 1951, if my > sources are right; > there was some sort of ASSEMBLER for the 701 (which was available in > 1953, IIRC). > The first HLL was Fortran, IMO, which should be 1956 ca. > So there are some years in the 1950 time frame, where ASSEMBLER was the > only choice; > that's what I am talking about. > IIRC, in the first years of HLLs, there were some debates that HLLs are > not usable because of > the poor code the compilers generated at that time. This was true even > in the 1960s for the > first versions of PL/1. > Kind regards > Bernd > > > Am 06.09.2023 um 17:55 schrieb Seymour J Metz: > >> because in the 1950s and 1960s, > >> it was the only language we had. > > ? > > > > COBOL > > COMIT > > FACT > > FARGO > > FORTRAN > > IPL-V > > LISP > > PL/I > > RPG > > SNOBOL > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
