What other oddball languages have you coded in?

superk

What other oddball or proprietary languages, that are still mainframe or peripheral-related, have you coded in?

Pedro

My first programming job, as an intern, I uses APL. Those were the good old days. But I forgot most everything.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:08 am Post subject:

NCR BAL equivalents:
NEAT3
NEATVS

BASIC for NCR Teller Machines

enrico-sorichetti

FORTRAN ( IBSYS/IBJOB/IBFTC 7090/7094 )
SLIP symmetric list processor
( not really a language but a set of subroutines callable in fortran for list processing )

ELEA 6001 machine language ( had to write the numerics, and hand compute the addresses)

GE115 assembler

APL

FORTRAN ( all the flavors )

IBM 3600 Finance Communication System FCL ( kind of MACRO assembler )
( wrote an ATM application )
with the corresponding VTAM communication side in assembler

IBM assembler

IBM PL/1

VM EXEC2

VM REXX

TSO CLIST

TSO REXX

PASCAL

C ( AIX, windows/linux/mac, s370/s390 DIGNUS Systems/c for cross compilations )

oracle PL/SQL if You want to consider it a language

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:08 am Post subject:

Motorola Four Phase Screen Command Language (or something like that -- I forgot the exact name). Memorable because both the THEN and ELSE pieces of the IF statement had to generate the same number of bytes in the output file and wind up on the same screen character.

HP 2000 Basic -- hardwired terminals so you could turn the terminal off and leave your program running

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:17 am Post subject:

The not so memorable languages include COBOL, FORTRAN, IBM Assembler, SAS, SPSS, BASIC (on 5 different platforms), SIMSCRIPT, PL/I, C, PASCAL, BSC (BISYNC) communications, 6502 assembler (I still don't know the difference between indirect indexed and indexed indirect), PERL, HTML, APPC calls, and enough C++ and Java to write Hello World programs.

Anuj D. · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:

AFP, C, HTML/DHTML, MATLAB (I think recently this is also being linked to Mainframes), little bit of Visual Basic..may I can include PLC routines (Programmable Logic Controllers)

superk

For me, I remember coding some programs (usually simulation/game stuff) in VS/BASIC. Then there was Quikjob (anyone remember that product?). For a long time my primary task was to code printer code in the XEROX FDL/PDL language, microfiche in the XCOM language, and then came IBM printer products like SCRIPT/VS, DCF, OGL, PMF, and PPFA.

superk

No one's coded CPCS (Check Processing Control System)?

expat · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject:

I'm jealous now not coming from a programming background

I know that SAS and REXX aren't "oddball" languages, but I'm sure that some of my programs could be considered

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject:

No CPCS here ... I've coded optical mark reader applications, and Intermec bar code reader applications using CICS and a System 2000 database, but no CPCS (so far).

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

expat, some SAS programs can be quite "oddball" (I should know -- I've coded a few of them myself) !

PeD · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject:

Sort of ... heu heu sort of language ?? for 3770 and 3790 IBM machines.

4 hours of compile process. Stop at first error on a line. So if you have two!!! You spend the night.

3 buffers zones of 256 bytes. So play with overlap ! Gorgeous !!

Terry Heinze · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject:

(DI)gital's (B)usiness (O)riented (L)anguage.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject:

Dick,
Was NEAT National's Electronic Autocoding Technique?