About programing, a general question

[Marvin Kosmal]

On 12/22/10, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 15:54 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> Bah.  Real Programmers don't use FORTRAN, either!
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>> http://johnreece.com/wordpress/2006/07/10/real-programmers-dont-use-fortran-either/
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> And I still have my book for the SDK-85 to prove it...  And my pocket
> fold-out cheat-sheet for the CPU OP codes   ;-)
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> Breadboarding our own CPU, RAM, I/O, etc.
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> Mind you, when it comes to compiling OP codes in your head, then
> punching hex into a bouncy keypad, I really wouldn't want to have to
> program anything more than the codes required to operate a washing
> machine or microwave oven.
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> Before that, I had toyed with BASIC.  But it was so useless (at least
> the simpler implementations you found on personal computers, back then),
> that you soon give up on trying to do anything good with it.
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> Tim runs through the room waving a punch card!
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Punch Card!!!!



Hollerith code


hehe

Marvin