What was the "Next Big Thing" when you started programming?
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
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Judah HimangoThe Commodore was pretty crazy. It had 128kb of RAM, and ran at 2MHz.... And came with a Basic version that had a RENUMBER command. A RENUMBER command i tell you !!! What sweet joy.
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoGO TO-less programming in FORTRAN!
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango.Net 2.0. I guess I'm young in the programming world, but I picked it up fast. I was thrilled with the partial classes, generics, generic collections, and ClickOnce deployment. That thrill wore off, but I am very grateful for generics and the futured feature of LINQ to object.
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoThe keyboard. Making sure there were no errors on the punched cards before sending them off to the computer room was a real chore.
BillyTheKidney
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango -
Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango -
upgrading from cassette tape to SSSD 51/4 floppies.
Jon "I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars." ~ Stephen Hawking, Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
Oakman wrote:
upgrading from cassette tape to SSSD 51/4 floppies. Jon
Yea! Same here Jon. When I heard I wouldn't need cassette tapes anymore, I was "Wha? No way!". :thumbsup:
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango4GL's
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoHexadecimal. Seriously. :)
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We must be from the same vintage :-) What about Turbo Pascal from a guy named Frank Borland? Ahh, good times... Martin.
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Artificial Intelligence was always a hot topic, but always failed to impressed.
Watched code never compiles.
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoJudah Himango wrote:
Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming?
Going from Basic to Pascal to C, on an 8 bit Tandy Color Computer circa 1983. Come to think of it, I'm still going from Basic to Pascal to C. Same system. Today. :wtf: At work I use something called Windows, Visual Studio something. Still waiting for the Next Big Thing. :-\ -- Rogelio
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We must be from the same vintage :-) What about Turbo Pascal from a guy named Frank Borland? Ahh, good times... Martin.
Frank Borland was a fictional person used in documentation. Will the real Frank Borland please stand up.[^] Anders Hejlsberg wrote Turbo Pascal. He was the lead architect for Delphi and C#. When I started programming the next big thing in my circle was the Intel 8080, the Motorola 6800, Vax PDP 11, ...
Cheers, Mike Fidler
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Youngun :) There was CGA, then MCGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA... And you probably know the rest. I remember working with 16 colors, aptly numbered 0 to 15 (After that it looped through the first 16, but flashing).
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
There was CGA, then MCGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA... And you probably know the rest. I remember working with 16 colors, aptly numbered 0 to 15 (After that it looped through the first 16, but flashing).
Remember when they first came out with the EGA monitors? I was at Quadram then. Man, did those things look SMOOTH after looking at a CGA for so long! My first one was a Princeton Graphics monitor. I thought it could never get better! -Max :D
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CGA[^] :) Of course, I was quite young at the time, so didn't know much about the state of technology, aside from BASIC on my old Atari 800XL.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel) -
Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango -
Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoI started programming, but didn't realize what I was doing was programming. I was 13-14 and I was trying to organize my games, so I could access them easily. That's when I found out about MS-DOS .bat files. I read a lot of the help command in DOS and built my first program: A games menu, with password (so my lil brothers would need my permission to play) built in a batch file. By that time I dind't realize where I would land, so my expectations were how could I build a cooler games menu, with more features like the dos .EXEs. My dream was to be able to make a .exe program. But by the time I was 15 to 16 years old I discovered by accident a "program tha makes programs", aka Visual Basic 5. That's when I realized what I wanted to do for fun and for living. At that point the next big thing to me would be game programming. A little later I figured I'd had to learn C/C++ to enter the gaming industry and my dream job was to work at Blizzard. I was a huge fan of their games, specially Warcraft II. It's still some sort of a dream, but it's not exactly easy to emmigrate from Brazil to US and get a job at Blizzard, maybe someday. I ended up learning a bit C/C++ but never really worked with it. So I didn't end up doing what I considered to myself the next big thing I would do. By then I didn't know what really was the next big thing on software industry, I just wanted to program. Now I work with C# in manufacturing industry. What is the next big thing now?
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoFor me it was the awesome 16-bit Texas Instruments 99/4a. 16-bit was the NEW technology then. :omg: I saved up tons of money to get one and started creating video games that had to be saved on cassette tape! Later they came out with a large floppy disk drive that I drooled over but never got because it was just way too much money (about $400). That was two weeks pay back then. Give me ambiguity or give me something else!
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We must be from the same vintage :-) What about Turbo Pascal from a guy named Frank Borland? Ahh, good times... Martin.
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Inspired by this SO thread, What was "the next big thing" when you guys started programming? I remember a couple things in college: -Java was big. Write once, run anywhere...people believed it. -There was some interest in, and lots of articles about, Microsoft's new version of COM+, which they named DotNet. Oh, and some interest in the Java copycat they called C#. -I distinctly remember my college textbooks claiming "natural languages" would be the future of programming. -To prepare me for the future, my college taught us Fortran and C. The closest thing I've come to utilizing either of these is the rare piece of C++ code I have to deal with on contracting gigs.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango1. Baby steps for protected memory segments for Windows. This probably flushed out thousands of bugs from Windows 2.1 to Windows 3.0. 2. HP NewWave was the big thing. Way ahead of its time. AT&T and NCR were both reselling NewWave to large corporate clients. It supported Object Linking and Embedding type of concepts running ontop of Windows 2.x platforms & higher. You could cross script all applications via the Agent language (think AppleScript). It had a standard platform installer package similar to what MS did not deliver until late 1990's early 2000's. The file system was completely irrelevant to the GUI layer. If you did actually look at the file system, it was all GUIDs. It is barely a blip in the records now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_NewWave[^]