About programing, a general question

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Dec 23 09:24:35 UTC 2010


On 12/23/2010 08:58 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Joe Zeff<joe at zeff.us>  wrote:
>
> There's also a copy of that story at FOLDOC.  The first computer I ever
>> programmed was an IBM 1620, Mod 2, with 20,000 individually addressable
>> BCD digits, already obsolete in the late '60s when I first encountered
>> it.  We started out with machine language, eventually graduating to
>> Assembler and FORTRAN II.  I have fond memories of using an IBM 024 and
>> found the concept of "cardimages" intuitive.  Now, of course, people
>> find it hard to wrap their minds around the idea even after you explain
>> it.  BTW, both Dan and Jerry also cut their teeth on the 1620.
>>
>
>
> One thing I have seen is that everyone has at some stage of his life used or
> learned Fortran in any way, that I saw for sure.
I am inclined to consider this to be a matter of age/generation.

Probably everybody, who was involved into programming or attended 
programming courses, or who studied some technical science at a 
university/school >20 years ago, hardly could circumvent Fortran.

Ralf




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