On 03/17/2017 11:41 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > Not quite true. ALGOL was the first choice for a couple of > architectures: Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes. > And I supposed you could claim that status for Bliss in the case of > VAXen, though in a different sense there was a whole set of high > level languages that were there day 1 because the architecture > envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).
Well, okay--the European-American divide must be taken into account--and the Burroughs B5000 architecture was sui generis. But by and large, FORTRAN, at least in North America, was the first language of choice in implementation--after assembly, if one can call assembly a language--many would call it "symbolic coding"; using symbols instead of numeric addresses. --Chuck
