A Progress Report on NEBULA
A. R. Rousell · The Computer Journal · 1962
It is now close on two years since Ferranti came to the conclusion that implementation of NEBULA should proceed, and that COBOL should be ignored, at least for the time being. The NEBULA compiler for Orion is nearing completion and good progress has been made with NEBULA for Atlas. It therefore seems an oppor-tune moment to go back and examine the reasons for reaching this decision, and to see how far the situation has changed in this period. The first report of the CODASYL Committee was made available in mid-1960. At about this time it was necessary to decide first whether Orion business users should be provided with an autocode, secondly to what extent an autocode should remove the need for using conventional machine orders, and lastly the extent to