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blazintommyd's avatar

Sounds like Fortran e.g., the bug made it abort

Khalila RedBird's avatar

Actually, I was coding in PDP-8 Assembly Language, cleaning up the FOCAL-8 interpreter. But, yes, bugs include things that make programs abort, or HCF (halt and catch fire), or go to NeverNever Land (freeze and remain unresponsive to anything but the OFF switch)

blazintommyd's avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8 - interesting. I programmed on a DEC 10 I liked using Fortran and Basic too. My only real familiarity with Assembler language is BAL IBM 360/370 - I have a relative that used it professionally. Interesting stuff 😎🤘

Khalila RedBird's avatar

Those were the days, my friend. It's been a long time, but the stuff I did that early and that young has stuck with me.

Peace.