Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:06

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On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 7:25:24 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:

> It was available on the mainframe at UofF in 1973 when I had my first
> exposure to computers, but we also had APL, so BASIC kind of
> languished.

BASIC timesharing was an excellent language, especially as HP and
others expanded it in the 1970s, but it was still looked down
upon by serious programmers.  "Real programmers" were supposed
to use Fortran or assembler in that era.  APL was credible, too.

In the business world, away from academia, COBOL was popular.
For the newly developed IBM System/3, RPG II was popular.

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