Well, its nice to know I'm not the only one suffering delusions.
>There were loads of business-oriented languages like
> Coral years ago
Anyone who can confuse CORAL, a realtime language designed by the Royal
Navy for miltary use (RADAR in particular), with COBAL, a language for the
home of the terminaly verbose, is living in delusional heaven:-)
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:19:58PM +0100, philip at imageviewer.co.uk> mentioned:
>> Does any one remember Coral? No, not some GUI paintbrush! Coral 66
>> maintained much of the British defence and power systems for many years.
>> Then a leviathan called ADA snuck its proboscis in the door, only to be
>> outsnucked by an little upstart that didn't even have a proper name -
>> 'C'. (Believe it or not one of my lecturers was a guru in 'B'. yes, you
>> guessed it, the precursor to 'C'.)
>> Meh. B was crap. There were loads of business-oriented languages like
> Coral years ago. Thankfully they are mostly all gone (to be replaced by
> more and more and more!). I think Comal was the one we did in secondary
> school. Far too much like Basic for my liking.
>>> It takes compiled 'C' 65K to print "Hello World". I worked on realtime
>> Coral systems that maintained the voltage levels on electricity
>> substations in the UK. Thousands of lines of code (albeit a lot of it in
>> 8080 assembler), squeezed into 48k on a purpose built Ferranti computer.
>> We were poor in those days - but we were happy:-)
>> And likely still deluded.
>> $ cat hello.c ; ls -l hello
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(void) { puts("Hello World"); }
> -rwxr-x--- 1 valen users 2872 May 25 15:05 hello
>>> P.S. To all you Pascal affionados (me to).
>> Pascal's only saving grace was that it compiled into pcode first, and
> shipped with a pcode->asm converter. So, you could write your own
> language, and have that compile to pcode. That kicked ass.
>> John
>> --
> For astrology and the rest to flourish it is only necessary that those
> with
> an IQ in double figures do nothing.
> -- Lucy Mangan
>>
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