Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!oswego!news From: dab@Oswego.EDU (David Alan Bozak) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer Message-ID: <1990Nov7.203826.2791@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Date: 7 Nov 90 20:38:26 GMT References: <1990Nov2.133932.14692@athena.mit.edu> <04!^M_@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Reply-To: dab@oswego.Oswego.EDU (David Alan Bozak) Organization: SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY Lines: 29 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <04!^M_@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes: >> In article <1990Nov2.133932.14692@athena.mit.edu> chuck@mitlns.mit.edu writes: >> >And you thought you couldn't write compiliers in Fortran? > >> Microfocus write their COBOL compilers, debuggers etc. in COBOL. Kids, >> don't try this at home. > >I'll see you and raise you one. I once had the "opportunity" of working on >a Z-80 based multi-user accounting system, with the O/S largely in COBOL. > >No, it's been like 10 years and I don't remember what the system was called. >If that relegates this to urban legend status, so be it. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >+1 713 274 5180. 'U` >peter@ferranti.com let me add one more interesting note: while early history of PROLOG is muddled, I do know of an interpreter which was written in FORTRAN IV in the early 70's. Now THAT is an accomplishment! -dab /\ David Alan Bozak, Computer Science Department / \ SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126 (315) 341-2347 _____/____\_____ Internet: dab@rocky.oswego.edu / / \ \ or dab%rocky.oswego.edu@nisc.nyser.net /____/ \____\ UUCP: {cornell!devvax,rutgers!sunybcs}!oswego!rocky!dab