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Article #892Re: First language?
From: mcdonald
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 1990 12:41
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 1990 12:41
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paranoid@nstar.UUCP (Damian Gick) writes: > >Does anyone know what the name of the first high-level language was? >It was created in 1953 by J. H. Laning and Neil Zierler, two MIT scientists. >It was developed for the Whirlwind computer, but was too incredibly slow for >any actual use. I'm afraid I can't find its name in any of my Whirlwind books (my guess from that is that it had no name as the books are very thorough). If you're reading from Stan Augarten then you should include Laning's quotes about the fact that their compiler brought Whirlwind to a crawl: "This was in the days when machine time was king and people time was worthless." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris McDonald. Department of Computer Science, ACSnet: chris@wacsvax.cs.uwa.oz.au University of Western Australia, ARPA: $(ACSnet)@uunet.uu.net Mounts Bay Road, UUCP: ..!uunet!murtoa!wacsvax!chris Crawley, Western Australia, 6009. SDI: (31.97 +/-10% S, 115.81 +/-10% E) PHONE: ((+61) 09) 380 2533 FAX: ((+61) 09) 382 1688
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!wacsvax!chris From: chris@wacsvax.OZ (mcdonald ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: First language? Message-ID: <1546@wacsvax.OZ> Date: 18 Mar 90 12:41:41 GMT References: <BZD4F2w160w@nstar.UUCP> Organization: Comp Sci, Uni. Western Australia. Lines: 23