On 18/06/2013 21:59, Tim Streater wrote:


C ? Pah! I started on them in assembler, but did hand assembly at
times. Not to mention compilers for a couple of languages...

And I have four PDP-11s right here anyway.

If you're going to write assembler for the PDP-11, then I can recommend
this language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-11


PDP-11: luxury. I wrote my first serious code on a PDP-8f. I almost
memorised the RIM loader in the end. And I had a colleague who could
read assembler straight off paper tape.