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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!border-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:13:33 +0000 Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc References: <36KdnVlGJu9VLW77nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <971448126.749088380.092448.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <59CJO.19674$MoU3.15170@fx36.iad> <3hOdnWpQ649QMGr7nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1396870532.749421730.052473.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1976765442.762208809.808387.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> From: c186282 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:13:35 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-jNdYx8y4az0Vowv+LU7146OYI8DhzoyAZzNAqxNxRUV/Bvex5+rZ3sX9UVnMmIMU+czFoajbDLuq+Jm!FF909YNpEjyqsH0Xjc8UHIiEEdHKtTxniyS/eXWH8fLNTWKgimAhTTyvoljOHrrypN9D/xxqH3U1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 On 2/25/25 4:03 PM, John Ames wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:43:06 -0700 > Peter Flass wrote: > >>>> Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided >>> >>> Assembler can be fun. >> >> Especially PDP-10 assembler. Wonderful instruction set. > > Need to play around with -10 assembler sometime.* The -11 architecture > is also very nice (if more limited for Large Programs) - not hard to > see why a number of microprocessor designers took inspiration from it. > > * (Having started on micros of the early '90s, the idea of a computing > environment where assembly isn't just a systems-implementation thing > but a first-class applications language is quite intriguing to me...) Used to be a kinda main/common thing. Compilers were new and expensive. Apps were still kinda small. So, ASM was often The Way - and provided The Most fine control.