Re: Concerning subscript bounds checks

[clodius@hotspec.lanl.gov (William Clodius)]

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rav@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (++           robin) writes: 

   From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (++           robin)
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   ---50 years?  Wasn't Ada (after whom the language in which this
   posting also appeared first) the first programmer?  Wouldn't that
   make it ~130 years?

The fifty years undoubtably refers to the first high level language,
Plankalkul, designed in 1945 by the unemployed (for obvious reasons)
German computer engineer Konrad Zuse.  From the Language List
(http://cuiwww.unige.ch/langlist) 

   Plankalkul 
         Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. The first programming language,
         implemented for the Z3 computer. Included arrays and
         records. Much of his work may have been either lost or
         confiscated in the aftermath of WWII. "The Plankalkul of
         Konrad Zuse", F.L. Bauer et al, CACM 15(7):678-685 (Jul 1972).

I believe that the language list is mistaken in saying that it was
implemented, although its design may have been planned for
implementation on the Z3.

Ada was a machine language programmer.

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