Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961)
by al2o3cr on Monday May 30, 2022 @12:02AM
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Adding the date would be relevant - the linked document is from 1961!
Concepts like the ones described in the "Extended Machine Operations" and "Pseudo-operations" sections (start around page 16) are a lot more impressive in that light; designing a system for expressiveness and programmer convenience over pure utility was still a very new idea.
Concepts like the ones described in the "Extended Machine Operations" and "Pseudo-operations" sections (start around page 16) are a lot more impressive in that light; designing a system for expressiveness and programmer convenience over pure utility was still a very new idea.