Re: [--- ForTran ---]
  By: Roy J. Tellason to Winston Smith on Thu Oct 16 2003 05:06 am

 >  WS> ForTran is the high level language version of the IBM 360 Assembly
 >  WS> language (BAL for Basic Assembly Language?
 > 
 > No way.  The 360 series of machines weren't out until the 1960s,  FORTRAN wa
 > out in the 1950s.  The name stands for FORmula TRANslator.
 
Sorry.  You are right.  I should have said IBM Mainframe.  I used it on a 360.
(I knew that ForTran came before Grace Hopper and C.O.B.O.L. ...  I don't know
why I said that....  I guess I just equate IBM 360/370/380/390 with "IBM
Mainframe" the way some people equate PC with the IBM PC even though PC's had
been sold for a decade before that -- in both kit and finished forms.)
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