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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 19:38:41 +1000
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message news:m2k4qc3y0r.fsf@pushface.org...
| "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@cox.net> writes:
|
| > What do you believe to be the difference between machine code and assembler?
|
| Perhaps he means they look different :-)
|
| Ferranti's Fixed-Point AutoCode: v1 = v2 + v3
| Binary: 000 01 0 000 00001 00010 00011
| Spoken as: 0110 1 2 3

Pegasus Autocode was not developed until 1956-57.
Pegasus Mark I Autocode was available from mid-1954.
(Lavington, The Pegasus Story, 2000, p. 35).

Anyway, the point I was making was that the programs
were run before the March 1953 Symposium,
and that the programs preceded FORTRAN, and preceded ALGOL.