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   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:41:02 +1100   
   Daniel65  wrote:   
      
   > Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 12/12/23 4:26 pm:   
   [Time for a snip]   
   > >>>   
   > >>> [Hal Heydt]   
   > >>> More about languages than you might suppose.  Dorothy had a   
   > >>> degree in Linguistics.  Me...the only languages (other than   
   > >>> English) that I can deal with are for programming computers.   
   > >>   
   > >> As in C, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC ...   
   > >   
   > > [Hal Heydt]   
   > > I *can* write in C, though not well.  I spent a lot of years   
   > > writing in COBOL, and I can make it do things that aren't always   
   > > meant to be possible.  FORTRAN is kind of rusty.  I started with   
   > > FORTAN II and later got FORTRAN IV (pretty easy transition).   
   > > Never learned Pascal.  BASIC I get by in because I knew FORTRAN.   
   > > Also learned and/or used a number of assembly languages...  SPS   
   > > IID, Autocoder, ALC (aka BAL), COMPASS.  (Points to those that   
   > > can identify the machines or operating system those apply to.)   
   > >   
   > > Also got reasonably decent with SQL, which might or might not be   
   > > considered a "laungauge".   
   > >   
   > > And then there's there other stuff like RPG and some similar   
   > > languages whose names I've forgotten.  And the languages that I   
   > > learned at one point and now can't even recall the names of.  Ah,   
   > > yes...  ALGOL was one of them.   
   > >   
   > In the late 80's/early 90's, I did (little bits of) BASIC, Fortran and   
   > Pascal programing. Some writing in '1' and 'none' i.e. 'Zero' which then   
   > got compiled on to Intel 8085, Zilog Z80 or Motorola 6809 CPU's and I   
   > also taught basic/simple programing on those CPU's.   
      
   You both might profit from subscribing to news:alt.folklore.computers where   
   olden computing stuff is aired. And even modern stuff such as PCs   
   running DOS.   
      
   xpost left in, as I can't tell where Daniel65 is based, (I'm seeing this   
   in rasf) but it would do us all a favour if the drwho chat was kept in the   
   correct NGs. TIA.   
      
      
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