What language???

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

1. C. 2. C++. Enjoyed it. 3. C#. Hmmm... do you see a pattern here? :suss: Cheers, Vikram, Voice of Reason.

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

fat_boy wrote:

C C C

Hmm... I detect a pattern there. :suss: Cheers, Vikram, Voice of Reason.

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"Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances"   - "Tomorrow we'll see", Sting.

[Roger Wright]

1. FORTRAN IV - I studied FORTRAN II, but had no computer to try it on. 2. ASM (8080-style) - I built the company a computer, but there was no OS for it. 3. Pascal "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

[Phil J Pearson]

1. Fortran X| 2. 8080 assembler 3. C++ Regards, Phil

[Chris Meech]

1. FORTRAN (with cards) 2) COBOL (that would be 68 and 74). And I've yet to have a problem that I couldn't use COBOL to solve. :) 3) C++ The language is a lot of fun to use. The single biggest thing I like about C++ is code-reuse. Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] When I want privacy, I'll close the bathroom door. [Stan Shannon] BAD DAY FOR: Friendly competition, as Ford Motor Co. declared the employee parking lot at its truck plant in Dearborn, Mich., off limits to vehicles built by rival companies. Workers have to drive a Ford to work, or park across the street. [CNNMoney.com] Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]

[Shog9 0]

SciTE[^] is still my favorite... :) ----

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[Gary Wheeler]

1. FORTRAN IV. Wright State University, fall quarter 1979. TI-59 programmable calculator, and Tiny BASIC come a close second. 2. PL/I. I took two computer graphics courses, and did an independent study project in graphics. The graphics lab at WSU at the time used PL/I on a group of CP/M machines. I extended the independent study project over two quarters. In the middle of the second one, I was really struggling. My advisor told me, finished or not, he wouldn't extend the project another quarter. I spent more than one 40 hour day in the lab finishing up. 3. Hands down, C++. Straight C is too confining these days.

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[Douglas Troy]

1. Atari BASIC 2. ADA '83 - required 3 courses of it in college: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced programming in ADA. It was stressful mainly b/c the prof. gave 1-A, 2-B, 3-C everyone else failed. 3. That's difficult to say; currently I'd answer C++, but I'm leaning more-and-more towards C# these days, as my base frameworks improve and become more advanced. I love C++ and WTL for quick and dirty apps.

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[Gary Wheeler]

computerguru92382 wrote:

Meridian's Ada 83

Ohmigod. I actually used that miserable excuse for a compiler at work. It was a piece of junk. Half the features in the language specification weren't implemented properly, or caused the compiler to go belly up. The only Ada compiler worse than that was the one developed by the Irvine Compiler Corporation for the DEC VAX. It actually caused our VAX to crash on a regular basis.

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[Gary Wheeler]

Chris Meech wrote:

FORTRAN (with cards)

Hey! I'm not the only geezer! :laugh:

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[Paul Lyons]

Marco [Stinger] wrote:

BASIC on an APPLE II

Hey... Me too!

Paul Lyons, CCPL
Certified Code Project Lurker

[stephen hazel]

code-frog wrote:

Which language did you first learn programming in?

Timex Sinclair ZX81 basic, then Z80 assembly, then Commodore64 basic, then 6502 assembly, then TurboPascal on DOS, then C on DOS, then 8086 assembly, then C on Amiga, then 68000 assembly on Amiga,

code-frog wrote:

Which language did you sweat bullets in for the first time? (What language was your trial by fire? Your very first maximum stress experience...)

For my first REAL job, I needed to learn SQL, FORTRAN and COBOL on an IBM VM/CMS machine. Learned to like it :( At least it was networked unlike the PCs of the time. Learned C++ on my own and in a class. Oh yeah - learned IBM assembler, too X|

code-frog wrote:

If you knew pressure was coming which language would you be more inclined to have at your back? Not necessarily your favorite but the one you know best.

C++ on windows with Win32 API, without MFC. I've learned Java. Tasted C#. I don't like em better than C++/Win32 yet. ...Steve

[Blake Miller]

1. Texas Intruments handheld calculator - like BASIC 2. C-Language - Mac-C for the Apple 512KE Macintosh 3. C++ People that start writing code immediately are programmers (or hackers), people that ask questions first are Software Engineers - Graham Shanks

[David Veeneman]

code-frog wrote:

Which language did you first learn programming in?

Cobol, on a Honeywell 32, circa 1968.

code-frog wrote:

Which language did you sweat bullets in for the first time? (What language was your trial by fire? Your very first maximum stress experience...)

Fortran, on a Xerox Sigma 7, circa 1973. Only computer class I ever took.

code-frog wrote:

If you knew pressure was coming which language would you be more inclined to have at your back? Not necessarily your favorite but the one you know best.

C#, hands down. David Veeneman www.veeneman.com

[Blake Miller]

The first computer I programmed was a Commodore PET. Then an Apple II (BASIC), then Vax 11-780 (FORTRAN), then Apple Macintosh (BASIC and C), then IBM PC (DOS) (ASSEMBLY, BASIC, C), then DEC MicroVAX II (C OPS5), then generic Intel PC (Windows - C, BASIC, C++). Been writing Windows software since 1992 - C and C++. Some BASIC, when forced X| People that start writing code immediately are programmers (or hackers), people that ask questions first are Software Engineers - Graham Shanks

[Blake Miller]

I used to pass C-Code through the Aztec-C compiler on the Commodore Amiga to see what the 68000 assembly language looked like. People that start writing code immediately are programmers (or hackers), people that ask questions first are Software Engineers - Graham Shanks

[SoftDevVB]

VB VB.Net VB.Net I can program in C or C++ but why bother.:cool:

[edeloye]

1. Fortran on a 16K, yes 16K :omg:, IBM 1130 2) Toss up between PL/1 and IBM 360 Assembler 3) PERL

[KreativeKai]

Ok, I hope no one falls off their chair with this answer: 1)COBOL 2)COBOL 3)COBOL :omg: I've been coding COBOL for 17 years and to this day, my job still requires about 80 percent of my time in COBOL. I've been coding in VB.NET since the day .NET came out and VB6 a very small amount prior to that. Our shop is converting from a HP 3000 Image database environment to a Microsoft Server environment, but still at least 90 percent of our applications still reside on the HP 3000. I have to say that as my experience with VB.NET grows, I'm hoping my answer for 3 will change to VB.NET. Don't laugh too hard! :laugh: Lost in the vast sea of .NET

[stephen hazel]

Ha haaa... WRONG compiler to use :) The Lattice C compiler ruled! Ok. I guess it wouldn't really matter. But MAN i loved that ole Amiga. What were you using asm for on the thing? I was using it for Midi I/O - fast interrupt code to mess with the midi adapter. For your amusement: :)

; MidiIOx.a - asm midi i/o stuph

     INCLUDE "exec/types.i"
     INCLUDE "hardware/cia.i"
     INCLUDE "hardware/custom.i"
     INCLUDE "hardware/dmabits.i"
     INCLUDE "hardware/intbits.i"

EXECBASE equ 4 ; base fer ole exec.library
CIAB equ $BFD000 ; base fer CIAB hardware registers
CUSTOM equ $DFF000 ; base fer custom chips
MAXIBUF equ 512

     XREF    \_LVOSignal

     XDEF    \_TimerBgn
     XDEF    \_TimerEnd
     XDEF    \_TimerICR

     XDEF    \_MidiOBgn
     XDEF    \_MidiOEnd
     XDEF    \_MidiOGo
     XDEF    \_MidiOICR

     XDEF    \_MidiIBgn
     XDEF    \_MidiIEnd
     XDEF    \_MidiIICR

     STRUCTURE MidiDef,0           ; MAKE SURE this guy syncs w C
     APTR      MTask               ; ...who to signal (me)
     ULONG     TMask               ; ...signals to use for dif msgs
     ULONG     OMask
     ULONG     IMask
     ULONG     XMask

     ULONG     Time                ; ...Timer stuff
     ULONG     SigTime
     UWORD     TErr
     UWORD     Tempo

     APTR      OBuf                ; ...MidiO stuff
     ULONG     OLen

     ULONG     IErrHard            ; ...MidiI+X stuff
     ULONG     IErrSoft
     ULONG     Add
     ULONG     Rem
     APTR      xBuf
     ULONG     xMax
     ULONG     xLen
     UBYTE     pCmd
     UBYTE     dLen
     UWORD     alignit2
     APTR      tAdd
     UBYTE     IBuf
     LABEL     MidiDef\_SIZEOF

     MACRO
     SIGNAL  who,how
     movem.l A0-A1/A6,-(SP)
     move.l  how,D0                ; signal mask to set
     move.l  who,A1                ; task pointer
     move.l  EXECBASE,A6
     jsr     \_LVOSignal(A6)
     movem.l (SP)+,A0-A1/A6
     ENDM

     csect   text,0,,1,2

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
_TimerBgn:
movea.l #(CIAB),A0
move.b #(204),ciatalo(A0) ; magic countdown value for 1-ms timer
move.b #(002),ciatahi(A0)
move.b