From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T14:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

Morton Goldberg wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:50 PM, John W. Kennedy wrote:
> 
>> Morton Goldberg wrote:
>>> SOAP = Semi-Optimizing Assembly Program (IIRC)
>>
>> Symbolic Optimizing", I rather think.
> 
> I was depending on a nearly fifty-year old memory, but Google (whose
> memory is better than mine :) tells me it's actually "Symbolic Optimal
> Assembly Program".
> 
> Did you actually ever code in it?
> 
> Regards, Morton
> 
> 
Yes ... it was Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program, and yes, I actually
wrote code in it.

We also had something called FORTRANSIT. It translated from FORTRAN to
something else (GAT? IT?) and then to assembler.