User:Gerard Schildberger

Gerard Schildberger can be reached at e-mail:     Gerard46@rrt.net

My Favorite Languages
Language	Proficiency
ACP and PARS	now decrepit
ALGOL 68	rusted shut
APL	wrote two programs, can't read 'em
BASIC	good
BASIC (other flavors)	so so
BPL	proficient
EXEC	proficient
EXEC2	proficient
Fortran	was good, now rusty
GML	ok
GPSS	ok, mostly forgotten
HPL	proficient
IBM assembler and macros	proficient
Java	poor
JCL	good
JOVIAL	used it thrice
KEXX	proficient
Kingston FORTRAN II	proficient
Modula-2	very rusty
Pascal	beginner
PL/I	good to gooder
QBE	defunct
REXX	proficient
SAS	ok
Script/370	good
Script/VS	good
Snobol	was ok, but non-functional
SQL	not so good anymore
Viatron FORTRAN IV	very good

ACP and PARS   --- I was part of the team that first implemented the Passenger Airline Reservation System for a hotel/motel business   --- a motel room is just a huge seat (chair) with a bed and TV, but doesn't fly anywhere.

APL   still bemuses me.

BPL   (Basic Programming Language)   was a Honeywell subset of PL/I (I was one of the programmers/authors).

HPL   (Honeywell Programming Language)   was a subset of PL/I (similar to above) and was to be used for Honeywell's new computer --- 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).

Kingston FORTRAN II   (mostly called FORTRAN 2.5)   was for the IBM 1620 with a lot of FORTRAN IV capability.

Viatron FORTRAN IV   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).