About programming, a general question

[Joep L. Blom]

On 20/12/10 15:08, Boggess Rod wrote:
>> Message: 5
>> In 1968 (or a year earlier) DEC (Digital Equipment Society) the
> producer
>> of the 12- and 18 (and 36-) bit computers (resp. PDP-8, PDP-9 and
>> PDP-10) delivered with their products (at least the PDP-8) a BASIC-like
>> program called FOCAL (FOrmula CALculation) that was more advanced than
>> BASIC as it had many of the concepts of FORTRAN but was - as was BASIC
> -
>> an interpreted language which, in those days, took a much longer time
> to
>> run than compiled programs.
>> Of course most programs were written in FORTRAN (which was standard in
>> those days) and FOCAL was only for play and for small quick and dirty
>> programs.
>> I wonder of others from the "oldies" on this list has reminiscences of
>> that language.
>> Joep
>>
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>
> Thank you! I was just talking with my 20-something office mate about
> this, but couldn't remember the language. Do you remember a similar one
> used by HP? Couldn't remember that one, either.
>
Bogges,
Sorry. No. I didn't work with HP computers at that time only with their 
scopes (but most were Tectronix). I thought they used some BASIC-like 
language but forgot the name.
I found a site:
> http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/langlist.htm
which has about 2500 computer languages listed.
Success,
Joep