Phoenix.pm: UNIX/C/Perl/OO/Oracle/stupid expecatations/out of
state/headhunter job
Victor Odhner
vodhner at cox.net
Mon Mar 10 20:25:42 CST 2003
Hal Goldfarb wrote:
> I did some searching and actually found JOVIAL.
> Just how OLD are you? : )
Ah yes. Jules's Own Version of the International
Algorithmic Language. It was a dialect of ALGOL
(the original block-structured language) that was
used by the Air Force, I believe, and also by
U.S. Steel in a special purpose system that Burroughs
was building for it ... I was a technical writer
on the project in 1968.
I'm not knitting. I'm working clerical jobs during
the day, and hacking Perl for a much better rate
(though not like the Old Days) at night.
Oh yes ... JOVIAL is sort of a great-granduncle of
Perl, since JOVIAL was a ALGOL's errant son and
Perl is descended partly from C which is definitely
descended partly from ALGOL, maybe with PL/I in
the chain somewhere in between.
With Perl, we don't need no other stinkin' languages.
P.S. -- I also programmed under *GCOS, which is
memorialized by a field in Unix's password file.
Vic
* Did that as recently as 1995.
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