Re: Which programming Language

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/10/2009 04:55 PM, Jack Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:49 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > >                      Readability and maintainability of "assembly"
> > > > > language.
> > > > Yep.  The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with
> > > > assembly programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN
> > > > and COBOL instructions), and the (macro, natch) assembler is
> > > > designed with HLL features.
> > > The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C in
> > > mind.
> > Patterned after the PDP-11 (), and DEC always liked orthogonal CISC 
> > chips.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000#History
> >      The MACSS team drew heavily on the influence of minicomputer
> >      processor design, such as the PDP-11 and VAX systems, which were
> >      similarly microcoded.
> Hey, Ron
>
> Due to Obama's intent to automate medical records, do you think that it
> may be helpful to get out the old MUMPS(M) docs?  Never got it's place
> in the sun.  But still in use at the GOV!

Cache' has been ported to Itanium/VMS, and I'm sure that HP would 
love to sell hundreds of OpenVMS licenses to the government...

> Thinks I may have them on DECtape!  8-)

Hah!

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