> On Aug 28, 2017, at 3:19 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> ...
> There were two version of the character set--the "commercial" version
> lacked parentheses, for example. Thank heavens that most 026s were
> equipped with the "scientific" set. If you were unfortunate enough to
> have to
Related to this, did Bob Bemer ever preserve a copy of IBM COMTRAN
source? For those unaware of it, this was one of the predecessors of
COBOL.
While thinking about Bob and his contributions to ASCII, I'm reminded
that one of the constraints imposed on the FORTRAN language was the lack
of what we
> From: Tim Shoppa
> IEEE Annals of the History of Computing just published (in past few
> months) Paul McJones article "In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler".
Congratulations to Paul and everyone who helped in this magnificant effort.
To bad they couldn't find a copy of the or
On 08/28/2017 10:43 AM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
> IEEE Annals of the History of Computing just published (in past few months)
> Paul McJones article "In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler".
>
> Many of us have been following Paul's efforts (and helping out in different
> ways) for the
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing just published (in past few months)
Paul McJones article "In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler".
Many of us have been following Paul's efforts (and helping out in different
ways) for the past 15 years, via cctalk and other mailing lists, the SPG, and
