I've gone to the Dark Side -- large scale business applications.
But I did lots of COBOL (of course), BAL, Z80 (when I had a business and wrote all our applications for our CP/M S-100 system), every POSSIBLE variante of BASIC, Fortran IV, WatFive, PL/1, APL (I can create a whole program in one line!), LISP, etc.
I still keep a hand in with ksh and DOS scripts and the like, but nowadays I head up implementation projects.
I had some programming classes in HS, worked in operations/programming at a small service bureau (way more ops than programming), moved to mainframe ops at a large financial institution (still there), I kind of fell into PC's. Currently network and email admin, and inheritor of weird problems.
Yep, I'm an engineer with a physics degree, working as a sysadmin. Go figure.
> I've gone to the Dark Side -- large scale business applications.
That's the REALLY scary stuff. You have my respect.
> But I did lots of COBOL (of course), BAL, Z80 (when I had a business and wrote all our applications for our CP/M S-100 system)...
Ah, S-100. Amazing it ever worked...
> every POSSIBLE variante of BASIC, Fortran IV, WatFive, PL/1, APL (I can create a whole program in one line!),...
Though not with any keyboard these guys would recognize!
> LISP, etc.
My wife was a LISP fancier. She's still got a big cardboard box in the attic with leftover close-parentheses.
> I still keep a hand in with ksh and DOS scripts and the like, but nowadays I head up implementation projects.
That's good stuff. The world runs on business apps, ya know.
Every time I open up yet another edit and type "#include <stdio.h>" I wonder what I'm doing with my life.
My daughter (13) has a dual-boot Linux/Win-XP box; she comes by her geekiness honest.