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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: <4vabpj$8oi@krusty.irvine.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175146733 references: <4um1l9$klq@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> organization: /z/news/newsctl/organization newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes: >I believe you. It sounds like you were there, and, as I said, I was >playing with blocks then. Well, cars. I once read an article claiming >that DoD-1 was the original name for what became COBOL, but had no direct >evidence. Maybe, the "DoD-61" was clipped to "DoD-1" somewhere, and the >mistake stuck. > >But, clearly, if COBOL was DoD-61, there must have been a DoD-1 before >COBOL, so Ada cannot be the first to have been called DoD-1. It's also clear (from the following excerpt from Don's post) that whatever language was called DoD-1 was first published in 1901. I'd be really curious what kind of computer language would have been invented by DOD back then, when there were no computers and, I think, no DOD. -- Adam > >Don Nelson wrote: > [snipped] >> It was published in June of 1961 (and cost the amazing sum of $1.25 - you >> could purchase about three quarts of beer at my local saloon for that >> in 1961). It came to be called DOD-61. . . .