Posted on 05/23/2017 2:03:47 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
For the last 30 years, C has been my programming language of choice. As you probably know, C was invented in the early 1970s by Dennis M. Ritchie for the first UNIX kernel and ran on a DEC PDP-11 computer. I am probably a bit old-fashioned. Yes, C is outdated, but I’m simply addicted to it, like plenty of other embedded system programmers. For me, C is a low level but portable language that’s adequate for all my professional and personal projects --SNIP-- And after you’re finished with this review of 1970s-era computing technology, give one or two a try!
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FORTRAN dinosaur here...
Sez WHO?
“As you probably know...”
Yeah...Right...Sure.
“As you probably know...”
Yeah...Right...Sure.
Assembly language is the only way to go. :)
There’s a LISP involved somewhere in that story.
Assembler is for pussies. Code in raw binary! ;)
I worked as a BAL and COBOL programmer. I also learned FORTRAN, RPG, and BASIC. I loved BAL and troubleshooting using core dumps the best.
If you know C, you can probably learn C++ or C# pretty easily.
LOAD “*”,8,1
I prefer toggling octal code.
C is still in the top 10 programming languages being used today.
FORTRAN and COBOL, the other popular VINTAGE languages are nowhere to be found in the top 10.
See here: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
and here:
http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
ANSI C does it for me.
No mention of PL-1, which was one of the least useful things I learned in grad school.
A lot of smart people cant get the hang of Object Oriented. C++ is not C.
ok but do you still have your wirewrap tool?
What’s wrong with BASIC, COBOL, and FOXPRO?.....
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