Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: COBOL and tricks Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:05:13 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: References: <20220726222648.bd05b68c16b046eb091b4e5c@eircom.net> <1429136229.681008446.539806.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:05:13 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="86330"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <20220726222648.bd05b68c16b046eb091b4e5c@eircom.net> <1429136229.681008446.539806.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:221569 comp.os.linux.misc:35325 It appears that Peter Flass said: >I think Lynn might weigh in on this, but I believe APL was used to define >S/360 architecture. The 1964 issue of the IBM Systems Journal which was all about S/360 included a description of the architecture in a version of APL. Shortly after that the started turning APL from a paper lanaguage into one that could run on a computer. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly