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PaulHoule 10 hours ago [-]
Before the Dragon Book some commercial compilers used heroic techniques that got superior performance along various axes.
veqq 3 hours ago [-]
Which? And do you mean compilers stopped using those approaches?
7 hours ago [-]
DANmode 2 hours ago [-]
> Computer programming is still a black art. It's less than fifty years old, and nobody is very good at it yet. We can make better tools than we know how to use.
readthenotes1 5 hours ago [-]
In the mid-1970s Alan k. Was working at Xerox Parc creating Smalltalk and the future.
Sadly, it didn't sell paper.
jmclnx 6 hours ago [-]
>In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer language called FORTRAN.
Sorry, I doubt that. In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM and many other companies.
Now if you said the 60s or science based programming, I would agree with you about FORTRAN. But in-house usually means running the business, that is where COBOL rules.
Now, in-house is SAP ABAP, I think that took over at IBM in the mid to late 90s and early 00s. But IBM is moving to the next release of SAP and from what I heard from people there, ABAP is being phased out for something new that SAP came up with.
PaulDavisThe1st 5 hours ago [-]
> Sorry, I doubt that. In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM and many other companies.
Depends very much on what the house did. Business programming ? COBOL. Scientific programming (data analysis, prediction, math) ? FORTAN.
Sadly, it didn't sell paper.
Sorry, I doubt that. In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM and many other companies.
Now if you said the 60s or science based programming, I would agree with you about FORTRAN. But in-house usually means running the business, that is where COBOL rules.
Now, in-house is SAP ABAP, I think that took over at IBM in the mid to late 90s and early 00s. But IBM is moving to the next release of SAP and from what I heard from people there, ABAP is being phased out for something new that SAP came up with.
Depends very much on what the house did. Business programming ? COBOL. Scientific programming (data analysis, prediction, math) ? FORTAN.