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What other oddball languages have you coded in?
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dbzTHEdinosauer

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:27 pm    Post subject:
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Terry,
to be honest I am not sure what the acronym meant.
back in the 70's on Century 100 and Century 300 NCR computers,
NEAT3 (century 100 series)
and NEATVS (century 300 series)
was to NCR mainframe computers
what Basic Assembler Language is to IBM mainframes.
And there was nothing 'auto' about it; same grind and watching the bits and bytes and boundries and Index Registers and Saves ....
I switched in the early 80's to IBM, learning BAL. After I learned COBOL, never looked back.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:46 am    Post subject:
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Does 1130 Assembler and Control Data's Compass(?) count?
CD machine language?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply to: What other oddball languages have you coded in?
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I forgot...

plugging panels for IBM tabulating machines counts as a language ?? icon_biggrin.gif
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:55 am    Post subject:
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1. APL (A Programming Language) - based on Iverson's book (a GREAT!!! language)

2. SNOBOL - a string processing language (in college)

3. LISP - a well-known list processing language (Lots of Insipid Stupid Parentheses) (also in college)

4. CDC 1604 assembler

5. Adage Graphics Language
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:30 am    Post subject:
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These Days working on FINALIST, well it takes ZIP code & produce ZIP+4 (+4 is for area code) in output. This comes under IMB (Intelligent Mail Bar Code).
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:23 am    Post subject:
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All of mine always had basic in front of them, in other words I have never been a programmer, here's a couple that haven't been mentioned

M024 - database and language of Computer Corporation of America.

KSL - the IOA standard KeyStroke Language


Gerry
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:39 am    Post subject:
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plugging panels for IBM tabulating machines counts as a language ?? -
Surely does icon_smile.gif That was how we "coded" them.

Still checking. . . These are in no particular order. . .

Code:
Assemblers and hllapi: COMTEN Message switches (sils, tils, othr),   Burroughs 2xx/3xx & 25xx/35xx series
                       IBM 14xx/70xx sps & autocoder, 360/370/30xx/etc assembler, Series/1
                       assembler, Singer assembler.

PCL integration: Interleaved HP Printer Control escape sequences with CICS printout to print combined
                 forms/content on the fly and not need to change forms in the printer.

Non-COBOL Application: MarkIV, Focus, Nomad, Mantis, IDEAL, Ada*,
 Development           CDPS
 Environments


* Yup, ada on an IBM mainframe. As far as i'm aware, our team was the first to get an integrated mvs/cics/ada/database system up and running (1987-88).

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:07 pm    Post subject:
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I have worked on NOMAD
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:08 pm    Post subject:
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Yeah.. and bit of ObjectStar too..
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Does punching holes into printer FCB tapes count ?
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