User:Gerard Schildberger: Difference between revisions

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{{mylang|IBM assembler & macros (370)|was pretty good, now, not so much}}

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Funniest thing I ever read in an   ''The IBM Journal''   article.

<big> BPL </big>   ─── (Basic Programming Language)   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 programmers/authors at Honeywell).

<big> BPL </big>   ─── (Basic Programming Language)   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).

<big> HPL </big>   ─── (Honeywell Programming Language)   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). '''FS''' = '''F'''uture '''S'''ystem.

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 <br>Funniest thing I ever read in an &nbsp; ''The&nbsp;IBM&nbsp;Journal'' &nbsp; article. <br><br><br>
-<big> BPL </big> &nbsp; ─── (<u>B</u>asic <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) &nbsp; was a Honeywell &nbsp; (co-developed with a Japanese company) &nbsp; developed subset of the IBM PL/I language &nbsp; (I was one of a dozen or so programmers/authors at Honeywell). <br><br><br>
+<big> BPL </big> &nbsp; ─── (<u>B</u>asic <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) &nbsp; was a Honeywell &nbsp; (co-developed with a Japanese company) &nbsp; developed subset of the IBM PL/I language &nbsp; (I was one of a dozen or so BPL programmers/authors at Honeywell). <br><br><br>
 <big> HPL </big> &nbsp; ─── (<u>H</u>oneywell <u>P</u>rogramming <u>L</u>anguage) &nbsp; was a subset of PL/I &nbsp; (similar to above) &nbsp; and was to be used for Honeywell's new computer &nbsp; (code name unknown) &nbsp; ─── &nbsp; 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&nbsp;'''FS''' system &nbsp; (and apparently, suffered the same fate). <br>'''FS''' = '''F'''uture '''S'''ystem. <br><br><br>