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> Lotus 1-2-3 was initially written in Assembler, Ι will let you track down when it was created. Interesting! I did not know that. I would still stand by the p
by hodgesrm 10y ago
> Lotus 1-2-3 was initially written in Assembler, Ι will let you track down when it was created.
Interesting! I did not know that. I would still stand by the point that application programming by the end of the 60s was leaving the Assembler era and moving on to languages like COBOL and FORTRAN. (And weird cul-de-sacs like RPG which was my second programming language after BASIC.)
- pjmlp 10y agoThis was true on mainframes and workstations. At 8 bit and 16 bit computers target for consumers it was a different story. Forth, Basic, Pascal, C, Amos, Modula-2, Clipper were the "managed languages". Anything that required performance was written in Assembly, or high level in such "managed language" (Turbo Pascal on my case) with lots of inline Assembly.