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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   Daniel65   wrote:   
   >Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 16/12/23 12:16 pm:   
   >> In article , 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.   
   >>   
   >Gee Whiz!! Seems almost everyone I meet on UseNet these days is older   
   >than me .... way older!!   
   >--   
   >Daniel   
      
   Ha! Ha!!   
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