Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a certified Old fart (I started programming in 1962) I remembered vaguely a special purpose software language targeted at building lens design software being used on an IBM 1130. This was when there was still some debate regarding programming languages being totally generic (like C) vs domain specific (like FORTRAN and COBOL). I hit Google for it and could not find it, but this interesting on lens design showed up: http://www.optics.rochester.edu/~stroud/BookHTML/ChapIII_pdf/III_18.pdf On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:48 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net <wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> wrote: > Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > Surely the Leica optical guys had access to > > this same technology for precise computations. > > IIRC Leitz and in particular Leitz Canada was among the first if not the > first to use computers in lens design. I'm relying on memory here but I > believe that Leitz started using electronic computing devices (by whatever > name) in the 1950s. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and > application > hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Clive http://clive.moss.net/blog/