Posted on 04/06/2023 6:35:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah, I was never exposed to it. In one class we had an interpreter that pretended to be an assembly language but not really. I was on a project with a drone system that was programmed in 8086 ? assy language. It was very interesting and the programmers could do incredible things but needed the system to be very fast.
Eventually we started specifying that VHDL be used so our systems were virtual firmware. This was very neat and I tried to teach it to college students, but It really was too hard for me so I kept to very simple things.
True. If there is a library with just simple 2d stuff that would be enough for me though.
Love LISP. Trying to figure out Haskell.
I wondered that also. Some areas of software development remain classified. Possibly Space Force black projects are using ADA.
Yup, Turbo Pascal was my favorite..
And Malbolge!
Googled for an image of the Fortran 77 text they had us on, but couldn’t find the right one. Probably still have it, have to check.
Yeah!
What’s with this guy? Some kinda code bigot?!
Why everyone remembers coding their first daemon in Malbolge,,,
That’s a familiar list. I did:
Business Basic on punch cards in college (Mainframe)
Pascal in college (Apple II)
Basic at work (Tandy Model I)
Basic at home (Tandy Color Computer)
MC6809E Assembler (Tandy Color Computer)
Quick Basic (IBM PC)
RPG and CLP for work (IBM AS/400)
Java starting with IBM WebSphere, then for almost anything.
Visual Basic 3, 4, 5 and 6 (Product got too large to port to VB.Net, still in production in VB6)
A little C++ and C#
Java on Android
Objectionable C on iOS
Toyed with random others mentioned above...
Hey fellow old-timer!
I was in the last engineering class at VA Tech to use a slide rule. One kid brought a new-fangled calculator to class (HP, IIRC), and the prof said he could use it if he shared it with everyone else.
;)
You had to hurt my brain, didn’t you? It’s either my index wasn’t initialized correctly or the end on my loop went too far.
Yep. Protection Exception.
Someone looped beyond their boundary (like Leftists are prone to do).
Leftist come in two varieties: SOC4 and SOC7
Awesome.
S0c4 = "Get off my lawn."
S0c7 = "Does not compute."
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