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Programming Challenge 50s

1 2021-12-12 05:32

Using a language from the 50s make a program which will print a star with any number of spokes in the fieldata univac character set. Yaw pitch and roll required, more angle dimensions the better.

2 2021-12-12 06:48

fieldata univac character set.

Meh, it's essentially ASCII

3 2021-12-12 10:21

>>2
Ascii standard is not 50s and this has characters which make drawing the requirements easier. For a counter ascii is 8bit this is 6bit.

4 2021-12-12 10:45 *

>>3
In some cases they're both 7bit.

5 2021-12-13 04:56

Is Algol a language from the 50s?

6 2021-12-13 07:53

>>5
Looks like it, but then you have to use ALGOL 58

7 2021-12-13 15:46

>>1

fieldata univac character set

I don't think anyone would be using this character set in the 2050s.

8 2021-12-13 19:50

>>7
I wonder what the attitude about Hitler's successor will be in the 2050s.

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