Re: Retrocomputing Museum Progress Report (http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/arti

Bernhard Froetschl <froetsch@inf.fu-berlin.de>
10 Aug 2000 00:14:29 -0400

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From:	Bernhard Froetschl <froetsch@inf.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers,comp.lang.misc
Date:	10 Aug 2000 00:14:29 -0400
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Dear Eric S. Raymond,

In 1994 you wrote in the news article
http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/94-09-125
the following sentences:

> POSSIBLE FUTURE PROJECTS
>
> plankalkul (Eric S. Raymond)
> An implementation of the very first high-level computer language
> ever, Zuse's Plankalkul for the Z-3. I'll write this if I get
> enough docs on the language to do it, and Matthias Neeracher is
> working on that

In the meantime our work group implemented plankalkül, more infos
under http://www.zib.de/zuse/English_Version/index.html

A PK-Editor - implemeted as a java applet - can be tested online under
http://www.zib.de/zuse/English_Version/Inhaltsverzeichnis/Simulationen/Plankalkuel/Editor/pk.html

The programs can be directly used in the PK-Compiler (also a java-applet) under
http://www.zib.de/zuse/English_Version/Inhaltsverzeichnis/Simulationen/Plankalkuel/Compiler/plankalk.html

Regards,

Bernhard Froetschl
Member of the work group "Konrad Zuse Internet Archive"
http://www.zib.de/zuse/English_Version/index.html