🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 03 May 2018 00:41:03 GMT, zync...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 3:40:55 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:
>> While tidying up my bookshelf I found an old copy of
>> "Time-Shared Computer Languages" which discussed a bunch
>> of languages available on-line in 1973.
>> 
>> One of them was JOSS, first implemented on the vacuum tube Johnniac,
>> then reimplemented on the PDP-6, and available on the PDP-10 where
>> DEC called it AID.  A cut down version was available on the PDP-8 as
>> FOCAL.  I think it had a lot of influence on Basic, both in that
>> program lines were numbered and statements started with keywords like
>> Let.  The numerically inclined admired its correctly rounded ten
>> digit decimal arithmetic, so sqrt(3)*sqrt(3) was 3, not
>> 2.9999999999996. 
>> 
>> Are there any versions of JOSS still around?  I suppose I could fire
>> up a PDP-10 simulator and look for a copy of AID but I was hoping for
>> something less retro.
>> 
> 
> Anon for this ...
> 
> The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) at
> http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/ has a lot of detailed information on JOSS.
> For example ... 
> 
> JOSS: ASSEMBLY LISTING OF THE SUPERVISOR
> http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0660836
> 
> I would not be surprised if JOSS could be resurrected in an emulator,
> if somebody felt so inclined (and I do not). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSS

says the example shown /is/ from a modern emulator.

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Bah, and indeed, Humbug.