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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:54:55 -0500
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From: Nate Rosenbaum <nrosenba@dtic.mil>
Subject: Re: Ancient/Dead Computer Languages Site ? (fwd)
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As I recall, in the early 1960's while in college, I operated auxillary equipment to the UNIVAC I. MAD was developed by Bernard Galler, I think the spelling is ok, at the University of Michigan. At that time there were several mathematically oriented languages--the mind set back then was that computers were used primarily in engineering for computation, and to a very limited extent for business purposes for which IBM and NCR electro-mechanical sorters and tabulars were used. ALGOL, BASIC, FORTRAN II, FORTRAN IV, and MAD. It seemed that several Universities developed computer languages for teaching or support engineering-- a trend that continues with PASCAL, MODULA, SCHEME and LISP,as opposed to C, C++, Smalltalk, and SNOBOL developed in the commercial world.
Nate Rosenbaum
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From: Nate Rosenbaum <nrosenba@dtic.mil>
Subject: Re: Ancient/Dead Computer Languages Site ? (fwd)
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
As I recall, in the early 1960's while in college, I operated auxillary equipment to the UNIVAC I. MAD was developed by Bernard Galler, I think the spelling is ok, at the University of Michigan. At that time there were several mathematically oriented languages--the mind set back then was that computers were used primarily in engineering for computation, and to a very limited extent for business purposes for which IBM and NCR electro-mechanical sorters and tabulars were used. ALGOL, BASIC, FORTRAN II, FORTRAN IV, and MAD. It seemed that several Universities developed computer languages for teaching or support engineering-- a trend that continues with PASCAL, MODULA, SCHEME and LISP,as opposed to C, C++, Smalltalk, and SNOBOL developed in the commercial world.
Nate Rosenbaum
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