[UB355]

In the good old days I used Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Apple’s HyperCard.

[VanDeKoik]

BASIC was always fun. Checking out thick books from the library full of code, that you would spend all afternoon typing in, while trying to translate the code that is specific to one type of BASIC to the one you are using. Running it, getting bored after an hour, and then just randomly changing variables to then get it to do goofy stuff until it glitched.

[Prince Caspian]

In the good old days I used Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Apple’s HyperCard.

I hear you. First language was Fortran. Used COBOL extensively. Anyone remember SNOBOL (string-oriented language)?

In 1975, took an IBM operating systems class. We used Assembly language to write our own OS. IBM green card was the Bible - BALR anyone? Ideal if you want to get so buried in bit-level minutiae that your head spins. Good old days, indeed.

[capt. norm]

"In the good old days I used Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Apple’s HyperCard."

Back in the 80's I was writing COBOL by the mile (verbose lang.)and arguing with CPF on an IBM System/38. Ended up getting CPF error messages in my dreams.