Xref: utzoo comp.arch:20686 alt.folklore.computers:9415 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!lsmith From: lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Billy Fish" Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Jovial (was Re: Info on GE-635) Message-ID: <1991Feb7.203948.1861@cs.umn.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 20:39:48 GMT References: <1665@digi.lonestar.org> <193900.598@timbuk.cray.com> Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. Lines: 30 In <193900.598@timbuk.cray.com> wws@raphael.cray.com (Walter Spector) writes: >In short, what was Jules Schwartz thinking when he wrote >his Own Version of IAL? Hmmmm, I read an unpublished interview with Jules Schwartz where he talked about JOVIAL. Let me see what I can remember. (<-- In other words, don't trust anything I say.) As I recall: JOVIAL was developed at SDC which was a spin-off of the RAND Corporation. They were responsible for most of the software of the early military systems like SAGE and other early warning systems. I think JOVIAL was developed on the Q-32 which was a computer SDC wound up with after the Super-SAGE project was terminated. Didn't Schwartz have help on JOVIAL? I seem to remember the name was a bit of a tweak. For more concrete information try the either Jean Sammet's or Richard Wexelblat (ed) history of programming languages. You might also try The System Builders by Claude Baum. Or maybe the ACM's upcoming History of Programming Languages Conference will deal with it... -- Lance "Analog" Smith Not all those that wander are lost. Excuse me, but I'm only in this for the entropy. Send monetary units to: PO Box 13345, Dinkytown Station, Minneapolis, MN 55414