Subj : Re: Today in History - 1
To   : Mike Powell
From : Dave Drum
Date : Wed Aug 09 2023 04:56 am

-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 > Fat fingered that one, didn't I? Laszlo also does Fortran. Me, I haven't
 > done any coding since the Amiga took the gas pipe. And that was mostly
 > basic and some (very) simple assembler.

 MP> Fortran is one I never dabbled in.  In college it was "sold" as more
 MP> for engineers.  I did dable in PASCAL a little 30+ years ago.  BASIC
 MP> also, and equally as long ago.

 MP> More recently (10 years) I took a class in Python.  It was also meant
 MP> more for engineers, I later figured out.

 MP> COBOL is more straight-forward. Define all your variables, maintain
 MP> structure for legibility, etc.  For my brain, it made more sense.

Python is a "scripting" language which I never messed with. I did fool
around some with EMACS (mostly "micro-EMACS". And JAVA. On the Amiga it
was all aRexx - which could get as convoluted as Basic sometimes.

Haven't messed about with any of it for donkey's years.
 
.... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.
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