Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!sun!idi!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Old fashion computing practices @ NASA Message-ID: <800@burl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 19:47:14 EDT Article-I.D.: burl.800 Posted: Tue Aug 13 19:47:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:34:15 EDT References: <1079@cbdkc1.UUCP> <46@escher.UUCP> Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC Lines: 21 >and C). Although, the shuttle software was written by IBM >people under contract, so they probably used a mish-mash of >PL-1 and ForTran. There was also work down by Rockwell >that I'll guess is a mish-mash of Jovial and ForTran. > >Doug Freyburger DOUG@JPL-VLSI, DOUG@JPL-ROBOTICS, >JPL 171-235 ...escher!doug, doug@aerospace, >Pasadena, CA 91109 etc. Well, I was offered a job with Rockwell, and they were writing in GOAL (Ground ?Operations? Aeronautical Language). It was NASTY stuff: IF VOLTAGE AT XPTB < 5.5 AND .... It looked a LOT like some technical COBOL or something. -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj