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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
From: "Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:01:58 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.video.classic, comp.os.cpm
Organization: Portmanteau Software Limited
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Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net> wrote:
| Kurt Koller wrote:
||
|| not to throw more water on this out of control grease fire, but
|| you'd have a hard time making "PONG" in RPG but RPG is still a
|| programming language.
||
| Perhaps so, but I have a "Star Trek" game written in COBOL...
| and no, I did *not* write it...

It might have been me, or you might have a version authored by someone else.
If you have access to the source, look at 'Author' a few lines from the top.
Kevin.
P.S.  AFAIK I'm the one person who bothered to port the original 'adventure'
game (colossal cave) from Univac 1100 Fortran to IBM MVS Cobol.

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
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  - From: "Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com>
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  - From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: albert@pikkukorppi.cs.tut.fi (Ojala Pasi 'Albert')
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  - From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
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- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
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- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
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