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I really started programming with CPL for PR1MOS which was bit like a BAT file for Windows.
On the PR1ME we used a CAD system called Medusa which had a programming language called Supersyntax that I also used extensively.
Both of these are what got me hooked. Both would probably be horrible these days though..
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I became a developer to pay for an addiction,
food, I'm addicted to food.
Also to keep my wife from leaving me, I needed income. Luckily, I discovered I had an aptitude and liked developing software.
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I was working as a conservationist on a nature reserve and someone gave me a copy of VB3 to play around with. Two years later I was an employed developer and I have never looked back. Nothing else gives me the same buzz as programming.
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My high school had the good fortune to receive an IBM mini mainframe back in the very early 80s. I had exposure to writing very simple BASIC code on cards that had to be fed into a reader. The very fact that I could get this big thing to spit out something intelligent (relatively speaking) was very eye-opening to me. I got my parents to spring for a TRS-80 not long after and I spent many long hours typing in code from computer magazines and getting it to run. I was instantly hooked and went on to study computer science as a profession.
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C was the language that push me to development. I remember the first time I could print something from my very own programm, it felt amazing.
Happily I still programming in C for microcontrolers
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"Black magic performed by person or persons unknown..."
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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It was the HP41-C calculator that got me hooked, then Turbo Pascal.
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I remember watching the Project Gemini[^] launches when I was little. While I thought the rockets and the astronauts were cool, what really caught my eye was the amazing equipment used in Mission Control to keep track of everything.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Real machines you could get your head round.
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Yes Siree!
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Right on! My first micro had Z80 on an S100 bus machine. There was no clock, so I put one together on an S100 scratch board - my first and last venture into hardware!
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It was a toss-up between PL/I or COBOL running on networked CP/M machines. Having experienced COBOL at university I decided to try something different when it came to work (recently created IT department where the junior programmer got to choose the development tools). It served us very well for a long time (well, 3 years or so) until the IBM PC's came along. I do miss using WordStar as an editor; it was the only way of editing files larger than 32k (if I recall correctly).
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Though strictly speaking it was AutoLisp via AutoCAD. But later Common Lisp and then Scheme really made me "love" to program just for the sake of programming. They're still my 1st joyous language group, and I've worked on many from C++ through Java, Delphi, C#, F#, Python, etc.
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It was an amazing experience while I created my first windows form application with buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons by just drag-n-drop the controls on the window form!
Regards,
DD
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I had the same feeling
Except it was with VB 5
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Regards,
DD
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I remember being blown away by VB 1.0. That was the first IDE to offer such a simple development model. Shame the language was a bit limited.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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<star wars="" music="" please="">
Years and years ago in a city far away from where I do live...
I saw in a trade fair were my parents took me a place with several computers showing a calculus program for small children in classroom... it was a black and green Hercules display, with some big numbers drawn and the user had to give a good answer to the proposed calculation.
After being for a while in front of those computers with my mouth open the salesman saw me and made me happy by putting me in front of one of those computers. I spent there a lot of time till my parents "asked" me to leave...
After that I started in an academy learning MSDOS, afterwards GWBASIC, then DBASE III and IV, Lotus 123 and C...
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This is back in 1973, We wrote our programs on paper, and then punched them out on tape, and ran them on a tape reader that used a modem to connect to a main frame, and our results typed back out.
So we had to take two elective classes in Junior High, and it was the computer class and wood shop.
I should of took the metal shop instead of wood shop.
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Actually started with BASIC on a TRS-80 model I... and moved to assembly language to add a rudimentary BATCH file type implementation for the same computer on the 4- 5 1/4" floppy disks my father expanded the computer to.
My original programs where on audio tapes!
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BASIC - Briskly Achieve Solutions Impossible in C
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I started programming with VBA. When VBA wasn't good enough to manipulate data, i start learning SQL. Then C++, VB.NET and C#.
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64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
With to much Peaks/Pokes and Goto's
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