From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 19:01:22 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Popular 1980 languages [Was: Comments on "C"] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20160910020122.GU16830@mcvoy.com> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:59:26PM -0400, Nemo wrote: > On 9 September 2016 at 17:15, Mary Ann Horton wrote (in part): > > When I was at Berkeley working on my dissertation, I wrote a tool that would > > let you edit a text file written in any language you could define with a > > grammar, with syntax and semantic error checking while you edited. I had > > grammars for several popular (in 1980) languages. > > My curiosity is piqued. What were these languages? My guess is Pascal and Lisp but that's just a guess. Oh, Fortran for sure. Cobal maybe?