Talk:Plankalkül

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[edit] Which University of Berlin?

There is no "University of Berlin"; which one implemented this language? Kwertii 21:14, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That's correct, someone initially forgot to specify it as the TU-Berlin, but now it's fixed; see the article. --Wernher 06:14, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ouch ouch ouch, TU-Berlin was in fact very incorrect... It's _FU_-Berlin! Strangely, nobody caught this grave error of mine; neither did I until I checked the referred FU-Berlin paper. Strange also that TU-Berlin didn't 'beat' FU to the first implementation. After all, Zuse studied at the TU. Oh well. --Wernher 22:56, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

By the way: According to the German version of the article, the first compiler has been implemented in 1998, the FU Berlin one being an "alternative implementation". --FAeR 06:29, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for that fact! Being a German-speaker, could you please be so kind as to ask, on the German article's Talk page, which university implemented the compiler initially? (i.e. two years before FU-Berlin did). I couldn't find that in the article. --Wernher 14:37, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello world

Hello world anyone? --Anonymous

Yep, that would be nice. Not sure how suitable the Plankalkül is for string output, though; haven't studied it that much. My preliminary investigations don't seem to indicate any such features. --Wernher 22:56, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Too bad 'bout the "END"

In this day and age the lingua franca of science & engineering is English, of course, and I have no problem with that; still, as a semi-continental European, I'd have felt a little better if the Plankalkül at least had used German reserved words (which I assume it would have back in '43 if Zuse had been able to publish then)... ENDE. --Wernher 22:56, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The only "word" I recall in the PK was FIN (French, obviously), assignment of 1 to FIN was supposed to signal the end of a program. Abbreviations, such as W for Wiederholungsplan and Z for Zwischenwert betray German influence. -Anon