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From: fenske@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: *66, *68, *77, etc...
Keywords: early languages
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Date: 28 Dec 89 14:09:09 GMT
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Reply-To: fenske@dfsun1.UUCP (Robert Fenske Jr)
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In article <6377@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>Which was the first 'year' language?  I.E., like algol68, fortran66, and
>forth79 ?
>
>I bet it's fortran,  but what year?

Wasn't there an Algol60 ?  And I don't know of any Fortran earlier than
'66.  And wasn't there some Cobol standard before '74?  (This is "ancient
history" as far as computers go!)



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