On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had > been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to > inspire Backus. Does that mean that Dan. might be right about it > being the predecessor to FORTRAN?
Valdres March has been around for more than a century--it's at least 113 years old. So FORTRAN has some catching up to do. It wasn't until the microcomputer era with BASIC, I think that FORTRAN wasn't the first HLL to be contemplated for a new architecture. --Chuck
