Re: Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (Sheet One)

> My bloviated meandering follows what Cy Burnot graced us with on
> 3/1/2012 12:55 AM:
>> Sailfish has written on 2/29/2012 8:36 PM:
>>> My bloviated meandering follows what Cy Burnot graced us with on
>>> 2/29/2012 4:35 PM:
>>>> Ron Hunter has written on 2/29/2012 5:06 PM:
>>>>> On 2/29/2012 1:46 PM, Sailfish wrote:
>>>>>> REF: http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For all you hackers who enjoy debating the esoteric intricacies of one
>>>>>> interpretive language vs. the other. Personally, I've always been
>>>>>> partial to machine language enter via switch registers but, then again,
>>>>>> I don't wish to date myself.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hummm.  Nothing can beat toggling in the program on the switches, which
>>>>> probably dates me, but I recall wiring panels for 'unit record' machines
>>>>> as well.
>>>> Ever program an analog computer?
>>> Not analog-only but I cut my digital molars programming both ends of one
>>> of these,
>>> http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Beckman/Beckman.HybridSoftware.1970.102646123.pdf
>>
>> Funny that that archive doesn't have anything on the Lexus of
>> large-scale hybrids, the EAI 8900!
>
> Sadly, it was hard to find even that using Google :( At the time, we
> were only using the hybrid for training and old program maintenance
> stuff. The, then, new kid on the block was the 360/91 running MVS :)