by neufer » Fri Nov 22, 2013 3:04 am
Nitpicker wrote:
Thanks neufer. Delving slightly deeper, I read that the Minotaur 1 gets its first and second stages from decommissioned Minuteman II missiles. And since 2010, the Minuteman III is the only land-based ICBM in US service. Yay for M.A.D.
- Yay for M.A.D. ... the first programming language that I ever learned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_%28programming_language%29 wrote:
<<MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) is a programming language and compiler for the IBM 704 and later the IBM 709, IBM 7090, IBM 7040, UNIVAC 1107, UNIVAC 1108, Philco 210-211, and eventually the IBM S/370 mainframe computers. Developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan, MAD is a variant of the International Algebraic Language (IAL). It was widely used to teach programming at colleges and universities during the 1960s. GOM (Good Old MAD), a reimplementation of the original 7090 MAD for the IBM S/370 series of mainframe computers running the Michigan Terminal System (MTS).
MAD was quite fast compared to some of the other compilers of its day. In a pre-release version of the original MAD, as a reference to MAD's namesake, MAD magazine, when a program contained too many compile time errors the compiler would print a full-page picture of Alfred E. Neuman using ASCII art. The caption read, "See this man about your program--He might want to publish it. He never worries--but from the looks of your program, you should." This feature was not included in the final official version.
And Bernie Galler remembers:
By the time we designed the language that we thought would be worth doing and for which we could do a compiler, we couldn't call it Algol any more; it really was different. That's when we adopted the name MAD, for the Michigan Algorithm Decoder. We had some funny interaction with the Mad Magazine people, when we asked for permission to use the name MAD. In a very funny letter, they told us that they would take us to court and everything else, but ended the threat with a P.S. at the bottom - "Sure, go ahead." Unfortunately, that letter is lost.>>
[quote="Nitpicker"]
Thanks neufer. Delving slightly deeper, I read that the Minotaur 1 gets its first and second stages from decommissioned Minuteman II missiles. And since 2010, the Minuteman III is the only land-based ICBM in US service. Yay for M.A.D.[/quote]
[list]Yay for M.A.D. ... the first programming language that I ever learned:[/list]
[quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_%28programming_language%29"]
[float=right][img3="[b][color=#0000FF]Line printer output following a MAD compiler error
on an IBM 704 computer at the University of Michigan, c. 1960[/color][/b]"]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/MAD-alfie-1960.jpg/640px-MAD-alfie-1960.jpg[/img3][/float]<<MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) is a programming language and compiler for the IBM 704 and later the IBM 709, IBM 7090, IBM 7040, UNIVAC 1107, UNIVAC 1108, Philco 210-211, and eventually the IBM S/370 mainframe computers. Developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan, MAD is a variant of the International Algebraic Language (IAL). It was widely used to teach programming at colleges and universities during the 1960s. GOM (Good Old MAD), a reimplementation of the original 7090 MAD for the IBM S/370 series of mainframe computers running the Michigan Terminal System (MTS).
MAD was quite fast compared to some of the other compilers of its day. In a pre-release version of the original MAD, as a reference to MAD's namesake, MAD magazine, when a program contained too many compile time errors the compiler would print a full-page picture of Alfred E. Neuman using ASCII art. The caption read, "See this man about your program--He might want to publish it. He never worries--but from the looks of your program, you should." This feature was not included in the final official version.
And Bernie Galler remembers: [i][color=#0000FF]By the time we designed the language that we thought would be worth doing and for which we could do a compiler, we couldn't call it Algol any more; it really was different. That's when we adopted the name MAD, for the Michigan Algorithm Decoder. We had some funny interaction with the Mad Magazine people, when we asked for permission to use the name MAD. In a very funny letter, they told us that they would take us to court and everything else, but ended the threat with a P.S. at the bottom - "Sure, go ahead." Unfortunately, that letter is lost.[/color][/i]>> [/quote]