| ▲ | jmclnx 2 days ago | |
>In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer language called FORTRAN. Sorry, I doubt that. In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM and many other companies. Now if you said the 60s or science based programming, I would agree with you about FORTRAN. But in-house usually means running the business, that is where COBOL rules. Now, in-house is SAP ABAP, I think that took over at IBM in the mid to late 90s and early 00s. But IBM is moving to the next release of SAP and from what I heard from people there, ABAP is being phased out for something new that SAP came up with. | ||
| ▲ | PaulDavisThe1st 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Sorry, I doubt that. In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM and many other companies. Depends very much on what the house did. Business programming ? COBOL. Scientific programming (data analysis, prediction, math) ? FORTAN. | ||
| ▲ | bear8642 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM I thought IBM were still focused on APL in the 70s… | ||