Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
On Fri 18 Oct 2019 at 23:22:37 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > [...] and I learned to use BASIC.
>
> And ? Any recognizable damage left ? :o)
>
> > (This was in the days when we had
> > an acoustic modem and a Teletype machine, and the mainframe was
> > 1500 miles away!)
>
> I had a color tv and a VIC-20 on the couch table.
>
> > Later, I learned a "real" language, Pascal.
>
> Arghh. Get hot water ! Get some disinfectant ! Get some iodine !
>
> The only right way is to work down from a BASIC on ROM, which is said to
> have in part been coded by William Henry Gates III himself, to a self-made
> assembler, and then back to Rocky Mountain BASIC on HP desktops.
Ah, our annual nostalgia trip! I'll save some typing:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00949.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00993.html
Cheers,
David.
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