From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.tu-darmstadt.de!newsfeed.velia.net!weretis.net!feeder3.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!usenetcore.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.148.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.lerostechnologies!news.posted.lerostechnologies.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:18:49 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:18:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: <4bb9c72c$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0cc11c$0$56569$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Organization: Atid/2 X-CompuServe-Customer: Yes X-Coriate: interspeed.co.nz X-Ecrate: tanandtanlawyers.com X-Pose: George Cox X-Punge: Micro$oft X-Sanguinate: The MVS Guy X-Terminate: SPA(GIS) X-Tinguish: Mark Griffith X-Treme: C&C,DWS X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Message-ID: <4c0d9a69$4$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v3.00.11.18 BETA/60 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.103.155.23 X-Trace: sv3-j2WKdzTbBZwzwi7bKuVqInZNqBrN4nFYCtLYiZIcMI8tEkiCg7J2FO4d9XinHu9NxVLcUWKQI8Yc8Cz!Vn85wowQI4DYYBkqO8zil2e2esIVwPWGCRHdWvnz59csPhSvwlI3PtErK/dqFMA9IBQWoGovxWQW!J50SLX5DUdIswJBgq68LQovJmOKLCNw9rQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2996 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12438 comp.lang.fortran:26504 comp.lang.pl1:1536 Date: 2010-06-07T21:18:33-04:00 List-Id: In , on 06/07/2010 at 06:40 AM, Peter Flass said: >If you want to talk *really* old assemblers, look at SOAP. The >hardware had no core, Ours did. But only 60 words. >and each H/W instruction contained the >drum address of the next instruction to be executed. The next instruction did not have to be on the drum. It could be, e.g., in core, in the Upper Accumulator. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org