User:Gerard Schildberger: Difference between revisions

{{mylang|HPL (a PL/I subset)|one of the early authors}}

{{mylang|HTML|mostly, monkey see, monkey do}}

{{mylang|IBM 407 plugboard|good enough to get a job when 407s come back}}

{{mylang|IRAP|author}}

{{mylang|KEDIT macros|very good}}

{{mylang|KEXX (REXX under KEDIT)|proficient}}

{{mylang|Lisp|was so-so, but now, not so much}}

{{mylang|Modula-2|very rusty}}

{{mylang|Script/VS|good}}

{{mylang|Snobol|was ok, but non-functional}}

{{mylang|SQL|not so good anymore}}

{{mylang|Viatron FORTRAN IV|was one of the authors at CUC}}

 

<big> Kingston FORTRAN II </big> &nbsp; ─── (locally called FORTRAN&nbsp;2.5) &nbsp; was for the IBM&nbsp;1620 with a lot of FORTRAN&nbsp;IV capability. &nbsp; It supported floating point arithmetic even if the (optional) hardware feature for floating point wasn't installed. <br><br><br>

 

<big> Viatron FORTRAN IV </big> &nbsp; ─── was the FORTRAN compiler for the Viatron home computer &nbsp; (I was one of the CUC authors of the compiler and libraries; &nbsp; CUC was the ''Computer Usage Company'', &nbsp; at that time, &nbsp; the oldest software company in the USA) &nbsp; and had it's fingers in writing some of the routines for IBM's&nbsp;TSS, &nbsp; which enabled CUC to write the first non─IBM book on writing/coding assembler for the IBM/360. <br><br><br>