>    * COBOL -> language for writing executable documentation
>
>    * FORTH -> kind of like assembler but harder to optimise
>


Those are great! I took a class in COBOL. We punched our cards, ghen
walked over to the HP clone, loaded the cards and pushed start. I remember
trying to debug a program. I eent to the instructor to ask for help. He
looked at it for a while, yhen said "Sure glad it's your problem."

The "executable documentation" is an excellent description of COBOL. I
remember statements like:

MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C

I think they later added this form:

EXECUTE C=3DA*B

On FORTH, I attended a class by Forth, Inc. and had an STD bus 6800 board
with FORTH in ROM. Interesting, but I eventually licensed BASIC from
Microsoft and wrote my interface in 6800 assembly (using a time share
service called The Source, since I did not have a computer). My license
for BASIC is at
http://bh.hallikainen.org//uploads/harold/MsLicense801210.pdf .

Harold


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