On 8/5/25 12:46 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
Good thing I only took one programming class in college...
Pascal on a DEC Vax
Funny thing: my first University-level programming class (having learned
BASIC and FORTRAN in high school) was a Pascal course (on a CDC Cyber).
A language I quickly learned to despise. This was followed, in no
particular order, by PL/I (also on a CDC Cyber), COBOL, DEC PDP-11
assembler, and LISP.
By the time I was first exposed to RPG, some thirty years ago, it was no
big deal to teach it to myself. Far easier than C. Including recognizing
when The Cycle was useful in solving a given problem.
Oh, and which BASIC? IBM VS-BASIC, on an IBM 370/135, running McGill
University MUSIC. With regard to FORTRAN, we had both G1 and WATFIV
available.
--
JHHL
(who quickly learned never to judge a professor's competence based on
appearance)
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