First ever? I believe was ForTran. Which was just that formula
translation from math formulae, i.e. trajectories, over to ML.
But I guess there were probably many local tranlators and interpreters
for developed locally. It was just that ForTran was a Navy thing..
-Mike
Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> >Also, what was the first programming language (I mean not binary or
> >assembly)?
>
> Off the top of my head COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language), followed
> shortly thereafter by FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation). One was for Business
> the other for Science, I'll leave it up to you to decide which was which :^)
>
> This of course assumes you don't consider a box of short lenghts of wire a
> language.
>
> >Another thing: CP/M was run on just about everything, usually with
> >about 64K ram. How is it that MS-DOS blew up to about 384K? What
> >did they put in there?
>
> Face it Billy boy is an incompetent thief, and a strong believer in code bloat.
>
> Zane
>
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