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µPIntroduction of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOTO</a> statement for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ALGOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALGOL</a> 58:

Doug BostromProgramming languages remind me of plumbing fittings. Once widely adopted they are almost impossible to eradicate, because application environments endure like old buildings and their sinks and toilets connected to pipe buried in walls and too expensive to change.But <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ALGOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALGOL</a> seems to be fading more rapidly, apparently because decades ago it was the victim of over-thinking?<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/gcc_15_is_close/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/gcc_15_is_close/</a>

µPIs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOTO</a> just a four-letter word?M. Hopkins (1972): A Case for the GOTO (<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800194.805860" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800194.805860</a>)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Algol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeolgy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeolgy</a>

Arkadiusz Sikorski1973 Room with ZAM-41 Beta computer. In the foreground from the left - operator's desk, Facit paper tape punch and Lorenz teletype. In the background workers at PT-2 tape memories. / The Capital Center of Electronic Computing Technology<ul><li>a 24-bit machine word divided into 4 characters of 6 bits and 3 characters of 8 bits</li><li>single-address instructions with 15-bit address</li><li>character set did not contain lowercase lettersspeed:</li><li>over 30,000 fixed-point instructions per second</li><li>memory read cycle: 6 or 10 µs</li><li>access time: 3.5 or 6 µs</li></ul><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PJEG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PJEG</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/JOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JOM</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SAS41" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAS41</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SAKO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAKO</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Algol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algol</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/EOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EOL</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COBOL</a> Total produced: 16 pcs.<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAM-41" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZAM-41 Beta computer</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/zam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zam</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#polish</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poland</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/calculations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calculations</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pt2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pt2</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tapestorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tapestorage</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/electronic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronic</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/oldtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldtech</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/oldcomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldcomputers</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/lorenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lorenz</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/teletype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teletype</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tewa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tewa</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/imm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imm</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/warsaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warsaw</a>

Daniel M. Reck"Prior to BASIC, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> languages like <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fortran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fortran</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Algol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algol</a>, and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COBOL</a> proved complex and...Kemeny and Kurtz saw a need for amateurs who were not dedicated <a href="https://mas.to/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> engineers to be able to use <a href="https://mas.to/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> as well. Their journey to create a more user-friendly language began in 1956 … [with] the lessons learned from these projects informed the development of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a>, which started in 1963." <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/</a>

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