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Numerous programming languages, including basic, algol, etc used for loops. Notably absent from the list of languages which used FOR as a looping construct was
by nwallin 8y ago
Numerous programming languages, including basic, algol, etc used for loops. Notably absent from the list of languages which used FOR as a looping construct was Fortran, which used 'do' for looping, and cobol, which used 'perform'. So whatever languages it was, it wasn't Fortran.
- mveety 8y agoOn a lot of systems the fortran compiler is often named fortran and usually aliased as for and fortran in the shell. I know as well on VMS, RSX, and RSTS you, at a minimum, just need to type the first 3 chars of a command for DCL to figure out what it is.
- RichardCA 8y agoThe "etaoin shrdlu" movie references Data General, so most likely it was an early version of RDOS.