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Gerard Schildberger can be reached at e-mail: ''Gerard46@rrt.net'' <br><br>
'''I learned that Gerard died on October 5th, 2021
Rest in Peace!
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: Sorry to hear of Gerard's passing. He was usually quick off the blocks in posting REXX solutions for new tasks so when he suddenly stopped posting I feared the worst. RIP. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 15:59, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
{{mylangbegin|<br><br> <big><big> computer programming languages I know ─── or think I know </big></big> <br><br><br>}}
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{{mylang|HPL (a PL/I subset)|one of the early authors}}
{{mylang|HTML|mostly, monkey see, monkey do}}
{{mylang|IBM assembler
{{mylang|IBM assembler & macros (370)|was pretty good, now, not so much}}
{{mylang|IBM 407 plugboard|good enough to get a job when 407s come back}}
{{mylang|IRAP|interactive computation with plotting, author}}
{{mylang|Java|poor, but dangerous (big gun, large feet)}}
{{mylang|JavaScript|see the program below}}
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{{mylang|KEDIT macros|very good}}
{{mylang|KEXX (REXX under KEDIT)|proficient}}
{{mylang|Kingston FORTRAN II
{{mylang|Lisp|was so-so, but now, not so much}}
{{mylang|Modula-2|very rusty}}
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{{mylang|Script/VS|good}}
{{mylang|Snobol|was ok, but non-functional}}
{{mylang|SPS|very good}}
{{mylang|SQL|not so good anymore}}
{{mylang|Viatron FORTRAN IV|was one of the authors at CUC}}
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<br>Funniest thing I ever read in an ''The IBM Journal'' article. <br><br><br>
<big> BPL </big> ─── (<u>B</u>asic <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) was a Honeywell (co-developed with a Japanese company) developed subset of the IBM PL/I language (I was one of a dozen or so BPL programmers/authors at Honeywell). <br><br><br>
<big> HPL </big> ─── (<u>H</u>oneywell <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) was a subset of PL/I (similar to above) and was to be used for Honeywell's new computer (code name unknown) ─── it was never built, but from what I could glean from the specs, it would have used HPL as it's native [machine] language and seemed to have some of the characteristics of IBM's '''FS''' system (and apparently, suffered the same fate). <br>'''FS''' = '''F'''uture '''S'''ystem. <br><br><br>
<big> IBM 407 plugboard </big> ─── can't be many of us plugboard programmers left. I still have a tie-clip made from a small jumper plug. I guess that makes me older than dinosaurs. Plug boards make steampunk seem old. <br><br><br>
<big> Kingston FORTRAN II </big> ─── (locally called FORTRAN 2.5) was for the IBM 1620 with a lot of FORTRAN IV capability. It supported floating point arithmetic even if the (optional) hardware feature for floating point wasn't installed. <br><br><br>
<big> SPS (Symbolic Processing System) </big> ─── was the IBM 1620 assembler. <br><br><br>
<big> Viatron FORTRAN IV </big> ─── was the FORTRAN compiler for the Viatron home computer (I was one of the CUC authors of the compiler and libraries; CUC was the ''Computer Usage Company'', at that time, the oldest software company in the USA) and had it's fingers in writing some of the routines for IBM's TSS, which enabled CUC to write the first non─IBM book on writing/coding assembler for the IBM/360. <br><br><br>
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