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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
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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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In HS in the 80s, learned BASIC, and then DEC Basic Plus,
then Cobol (uggh), and Fortran (meh). Macro-11 Assembler (wow).
Wrote my first Run Time System (like a shell), learned how Octal Machine
codes worked.
Disassembled portions of the DEC OS (RSTS/E) as my final exam in the class.
Patched the OS to add hidden files [For some reason, I could logon when
logons were disabled, and I never needed to know a password. LOL]
I was sooo hooked.
Landed my first job at 19 on PDP-11/70s and loved every minute of it.
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Ahhh, the peeks and pokes, you've taken me back, my friend.
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Started using Commodore BASIC in 1980 in high school, then self taught on 6502 Assembler.
That got me started... went to community college and took business administration - electronic data processing. The course name changed to Programmer Analyst the following year.
BASIC, VAX Assembler, PASCAL, COBOL, RPG at college. Self taught C on a Commodore 64.
Then, started using Fotran at work, and mixed in a little C.
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My first job in 1965 involved using a Monroe desk calculator to analyze the output of a large Fortran program running on an IBM 7094. This seemed stupid, so I learned Fortran, wrote a back-end to the program, and changed my profession from mathematician to developer. After that, I regressed, using various assemblers before switching to Pascal and then to C. But I still hae a soft spot for quaint old Fortran IV.
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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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