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   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
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   Daniel65   wrote:   
   >Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 12/12/23 4:26 pm:   
   >> [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.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   I started learning to program in 1964...so BASIC, Pascal   
   languages didn't exist, and neither did microprocessors.   
      
   Among languages I forgot mention...SNOBOL.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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