what name would you come up with?

[Skaperen]

suppose you (of today) and all your memory were transported back in time to 1966 when the popular computer was the IBM System/360 mainframe that only largish businesses and major universities could afford (usually only one of). and suppose you go to work re-creating the Python language (maybe with your personal changes). what would you name it, in that day and age?

[Gribouillis]

In 1966, people were very close to creating the B language, the father of the C language. OOP was not born and Python would have to wait another 25 years.

[DeaD_EyE]

I guess even Micropython don't run with this limitations.
If I ever been ported back to 1966, I would do something with analog computers.

For example: you don't need a digital computer to do differential equations.
The old people know this.

The roof construction of the Munic Olympia building was calculated with stockings for woman.

The Calculation of a minimal area of a complex shape can be done by bubbles.
A digital computer do this computation with iterations. An analog computer does this
calculation in a single step.

In 1966 the digital computer were an anomaly. Digital computers were seen as special use case.
Today it's reversed. You'll not find much analog computers in real use.

[Larz60+]

If I ever been ported back to 1966, I would do something with analog computers.

My dad ran a small technology company that was started in the 1950's. He swore by analog computers, and insisted that
digital computers would never survive. I always thought there was room for both. As an analogy, think of analog and digital multi-meters.
Digital meters are great for instantaneous measurements, but try to tune a coil to null and it can only be done (properly) with an analog (I still have and use my Tripplet) meter. Actually you can still buy them here.

[Skaperen]

there are lots of things you can do with analog computers, depending on how many channels you have. lots of problems are worked on digital computers by emulating analog computers.

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digital computers fit in well for business and text processing. when i was in college we would sometimes go over to the accelerator lab and the ops would set up the matrix boards on their analog computer (they also had a digital computer to store answers) to run a star wars game. it could do a hundred planets, accurately, with speed that rivals myriad-core GPUs of today.

[Larz60+]

This is what I'm waiting for: https://www.ontrack.com/uk/blog/the-worl...ory-chips/

[Skaperen]

i am waiting for that, too. i do think they should also do optical processors. i also have a theory idea how to trap a single photon and hold onto while it spins on a circle. being just one photon it will lose partial energy. the only way to lose energy is to lose the whole photon.