Posted on 06/12/2021 9:01:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yup yup yup!
Fortran66, good old IBM punchcard machine, and a dash of a Univac 1050-ii for military data processing.
Never mind that massive, super loud, 8x14 green-striped, multi-copy-form impact printer!!!
And you had to debug by poring over a hex dump
DR Pascal and Turbo Pascal were two of my favorite languages.
“I also learned using punch cards.”
Same here, started with IBM in 67’ on Unit Record wiring boards, a type of coding I guess. then 1410/7010 Autocoder. Advanced to 360/MFT/MVT etc, Assembler Pl/1. Kind of ancient myself. LOL
Turbo Pascal lives on as Delphi.
I remember exactly the machine you’re talking about.
The nerds in our HS science classes would sometimes take their printout roll out into a long hall and roll it out. Then get on their hands and knees and go through the printout, line by line.
Yes it is. That would be starvation wages in California.
Geez. My current job ... take data from SAP and process it in COBOL. I am retiring next year.
PERL forever.
C++ is the Devil’s language.
I started out in BASIC and FORTRAN in the mid80s.
But, gave it all up during the Billy-Jeff years and let an out-of-work West Virginia coal miner so my coding.
C+? Syntax error.
Good times reading dumps.
Forth was one of the first languages I learned as a young teen. I used APL for a bit in college - it was amazingly compact and powerful for math oriented tasks.
Well, my first computer ran on steam, and it took half an hour of shoveling coal just to boot up. The only typefaces were cuneiform and hieroglyphics, until they added Linear B, and the only graphics were cave paintings.
But you tell the young folks today about it, and they just won’t believe you.
LOL!
It is still being used for heavy number-crunching. There are multiple computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes still using FORTRAN.
Don’t forget BASIC, FORTRAN, PL/1, and ASSEMBLER. I took all these these in college.
LOL, I agree. C is great, C++ not so much.
I still get calls for COBOL/CICS/VSAM but the pay is too low ($37 an hour) because they are contract outfits.
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