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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Old fashion computing practices @ NASA
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 19:47:14 EDT
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>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.
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