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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:03:15 -0800
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:43:06 -0700
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >> Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided  
> > 
> > Assembler can be fun.
> 
> Especially PDP-10 assembler. Wonderful instruction set.

Need to play around with -10 assembler sometime.* The -11 architecture
is also very nice (if more limited for Large Programs) - not hard to
see why a number of microprocessor designers took inspiration from it.

* (Having started on micros of the early '90s, the idea of a computing
  environment where assembly isn't just a systems-implementation thing
  but a first-class applications language is quite intriguing to me...)