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langiage? Really? No spell-checker, @Chris-Maunder?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Internet. Websites & Web pages.
During my college days, I fooled more than bunch of guys by loaded a dummy page(like a portal page using HTML with some js) & told them that as a live site. Those idiots believed me at first couple of times as they didn't know about address-bar of Internet Explorer. And that machine was without Internet. My HTML skill(?) was unbelievable at that time.
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My father was a High School teacher and he had taken a continuing-ed class on Computer Programming. I found the FORTRAN-IV textbook on his shelf and just started reading. It immediately made sense to me and I was intrigued with computers from then on. Years later when I had a chance to take a programming class in High School (FOCAL and BASIC on a PDP-8 with a TTY and 4K of RAM) I jumped at the chance, and that got my whole career rolling. My father was amused because he totally bounced off of programming.
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As an amateur radio hobbyist we made an S100 buss computer and I recognized writing software was far more fun than having to unsolder bad memory sockets (we were to cheap to buy gold plated sockets)as a result thermal creep caused the ram chips to unplug themselves. After my friend worked on the bad cheap sockets I decided writing the software was much more fun. Although, I still do the hardware but 90% of the time I am a "code monkey"!
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Maybe the most cryptic and powerful language ever, APL.
APL = A Programming Language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson.
In 1973, IBM released APL.SV for the IBM System/370.
Later integrated into the MUSIC/SP system.
My trance with APL ended with Data Structures with Pascal.
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Ah well, it lives on in K/KDB+ and the world of Goldman Sachs.
I appreciate how APL taught me to think about (gigantic) collections (dbs).
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... for those of us who remember it.
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It almost inspired me to stop developing ...
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TI-89 programmable calculator. 8088 Assembler and Forth were my next two languages.
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I had an electronic (American Megatronics) typesetter. I was just curious what made it work. I ended up learning about CPM and how to code machine language.
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Punched instructions into punch cards with a stylus in High School 1971 for 200 pound educational computer.
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Nah, I'm kidding, but seeing how many girls asked me for help with BASIC, and then Pascal, and even Lisp sure helped seal the deal.
Even after learning several languages, it was a small VAX BASIC program that landed me my wife.
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No particular technology inspired me to become a developer. I just fell in love with the whole idea of designing a solution the computer could follow.
At that time all I had was Fortran and assembler and a huge computer run from a punched card reader. Nothing inspiring there.
An artist does not seek inspiration from his tools - usually.
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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a trade show was in town, first time to see GALAGA on a black and green screen! my dad bought me one and discovered BASIC..first program was a kilometer long just to show a dot on the screen jump and draw a circle!
then when on to GW-BASIC, assembly (i did not like it), then Turbo Basic, then Turbo Pascal, c++ then when into database with dbase 3 Plus, foxbase, foxPRO, Clipper then i was blown away the first time i saw Visual Basic 3.0!! and the rest is history!
Now happily using c# and (cough) java for android development
Life - Dreams = Job
TheCardinal
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Wow! Same track here!
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Trash-80 BASIC and TI BASIC on a TI 99-4A. Still have the old TI programming manual for a keepsake. Also have an old TRS80 Model 100 portable in the closet. The old thing still works. Graduated up to dBase II and Lotus macros and Wang Glossaries. And then somehow ended up driving a truck for a living.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Just type in hexadecimal machine code directly. The development environment is completely in hardware: A hexadecimal keyboard.
The big bonus: No way to fight wars over code styles or naming conventions. What part of hexadecimal did you not understand?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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This is so BAD that it made me DEAD.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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DEAF, or what?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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There's this guy who posts in assembly newsgroups sometimes who insists on writing his code in decimal machine code. Decimal.
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That must be one of those guys who had to put his machine code routines in C64 BASIC DATA statements.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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But you can still have DEADC0DE, even in machine code.
I do remember actually learning to hand-encode Z80 assembler to machine code to program on the ZX81/Spectrum.
The Zilog Z80 Reference Manual actually taught most things you needed. They don't make manuals like that anymore. It was about the size of a bible, and much, much more accurate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I found this[^], together with the parts and the schematics for my first computer.
I still have both the manual and the computer.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Those were the days of BASIC!
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In High School (in the 80s) I used BASIC (with PEEKs and POKEs) to make a square dance around a monitor. I was hooked. Then I went to community college thinking that I could continue my education and took the only CS class available: COBOL. That was the death knell for me. It taught me that "grown up" programming was hideously boring. It would be 15 years before I finally circled back around re-discovered my passion for development.
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