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  • B BrainiacV

    GStrad wrote:

    and Forth!

    Good man! FORTH is the one true language! I really miss working in it.

    Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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    GStrad
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    It was a great language, and I still regret getting rid of my Jupiter Ace to fund the amstrad CPC 464 that replaced it....

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    • G Gregory Gadow

      American, and Commodore BASIC.

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      rlsdumont
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      AFAIK American isn't a language.

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      • T Tim Carmichael

        Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.

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        Brazilian Portuguese and PHP/HTML I still live in Brazil, so I usually speak in Portuguese, although most of my reading/writing is in English. For a long time now my main coding language is C#. Since I work with the web (who does't nowadays?), I also write lots of JavaScript and HTML.

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        • T Tim Carmichael

          Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.

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          Earl Truss
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          English and FORTRAN. I still speak English but I haven't used FORTRAN since about 1985.

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          • L Lost User

            You modified your post so mine became pointless.. Well, I have a Haswell and I'm an assembly expert(I guess?), so maybe I could do something there :) I'm using AVX2 in VLC (working on sound format converters), that's just regular pre-assembled assembly though.

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            Matthew Faithfull
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            My QOR Architecture Aspect[^] article has gone live. CP editorial did a bang up job with the images in record time :cool: :java:

            "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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            • G GStrad

              It was a great language, and I still regret getting rid of my Jupiter Ace to fund the amstrad CPC 464 that replaced it....

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              BrainiacV
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              I initially used it to wrote a Biorhythm cartridge for Bally's Astrocade, but I really got into it when I was programming computer controlled conveyor systems. We used a multi-tasker in the language instead of the operating system. We were able to query variables while the conveyor was running in real time. The 32 bit version was great because we didn't have the 64K limit. Prior to that I had to find common sequences of commands and replace them with a new verb to shrink the code to fit. I still have fantasies of an object oriented version.

              Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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              • B BiggerDon

                hmmmm..."idiot redneck" may be yanking your chain by feeding your biases.

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                BrainiacV
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                No, he was an idiot and a redneck. You haven't encountered prejudice until you have a conversation with him for any length. But don't get me started, I have hours of stories of stupid stuff this guy would spout. White Americans are the center of the universe and don't you forget it.

                Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                • M Matthew Faithfull

                  My QOR Architecture Aspect[^] article has gone live. CP editorial did a bang up job with the images in record time :cool: :java:

                  "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                  Lost User
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                  Scanned it a bit, will read it when I have time (should be soon) Btw, IIRC you can 5 your own article, did you try that?

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                    Scanned it a bit, will read it when I have time (should be soon) Btw, IIRC you can 5 your own article, did you try that?

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                    Matthew Faithfull
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                    Thanks, I didn't try voting on it myself, I wouldn't want to risk the wrath of Bob. :)

                    "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                      Thanks, I didn't try voting on it myself, I wouldn't want to risk the wrath of Bob. :)

                      "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                      Lost User
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                      By the way, where can I find the code that deals with the "jump target out of range" issue?

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                      • T Tim Carmichael

                        Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.

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                        BotReject
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                        English English, mathematics (a language surely?) and Commodore BASIC. Closely followed by Latin (OK, I'm not very fluent!), assembly / machine code, BBC BASIC and C. Then I switched to the C-family and Java. I recently began programming BASIC and machine code on a C64 emulator again and I found it most illuminating - it put many concepts into an historical perspective and also brushed up my binary and taught me more about how computers work on a fundamental level.

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                        • L Lost User

                          By the way, where can I find the code that deals with the "jump target out of range" issue?

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                          Matthew Faithfull
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                          If you mean when short jumps become long jumps that's handled in CEJmp::emit "ArchQOR/x86/HLAssembler/EJmp.cpp:154" in the HLA and you'd have to look after that yourself if you use the low level assembler. If we're talking jumps larger than 32bits of address space I don't know of any code dealing with that. Petr might be able to enlighten you or it may simply be missing. I have a couple of 64bit machines and 64bit OSs but I haven't as yet cooked a 64bit build with VS2012 to try out the x64 support. Given that there will be, as noted in the article, serious issues with it. It's on the TODO list but to be honest I've had my fill of assembly language for the moment and am rampaging through the AOP features for the next article. Much more my sort of thing. :)

                          "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                            If you mean when short jumps become long jumps that's handled in CEJmp::emit "ArchQOR/x86/HLAssembler/EJmp.cpp:154" in the HLA and you'd have to look after that yourself if you use the low level assembler. If we're talking jumps larger than 32bits of address space I don't know of any code dealing with that. Petr might be able to enlighten you or it may simply be missing. I have a couple of 64bit machines and 64bit OSs but I haven't as yet cooked a 64bit build with VS2012 to try out the x64 support. Given that there will be, as noted in the article, serious issues with it. It's on the TODO list but to be honest I've had my fill of assembly language for the moment and am rampaging through the AOP features for the next article. Much more my sort of thing. :)

                            "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                            Lost User
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                            Yes that's what I meant. Was just curious how you did it. The simple way apparently, no offense :) It's not a very critical thing to get guaranteed minimum branch size, but it's an interesting problem IMO, easy to solve without code alignments (you can assume all branches are short, then make out-of-range ones large until they're all in range), I don't know yet how to do it when alignments get in the way.

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                              Yes that's what I meant. Was just curious how you did it. The simple way apparently, no offense :) It's not a very critical thing to get guaranteed minimum branch size, but it's an interesting problem IMO, easy to solve without code alignments (you can assume all branches are short, then make out-of-range ones large until they're all in range), I don't know yet how to do it when alignments get in the way.

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                              Matthew Faithfull
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                              That's exactly the kind of reason I didn't write this thing from scratch. It not nearly as simple an idea as it seems and the scale at which these problems occur is always somewhere between what is 'correct' assembler, i.e. will parse and run, and what is a working program. The size of that gap seems to be bigger in assembly than any other language I've used.

                              "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                              • T Tim Carmichael

                                Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.

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                                bobc4012
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                                US English (what is called "Standard American" and Autocoder/SPS (assembler languages) -- long before (for some of you anyway) your daddy was a gleam in his daddy's eye! LOL! :laugh:

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                                • R RussTiller

                                  English and to show how old I am System 360 Assembler Language. I now code in C# and a little VBA when I am in Excel.

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                                  bobc4012
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                                  Why you are just a "young buck" :laugh: ! See my post further on down. Autocoder/SPS. You probably used stuff I wrote for the 360! Ah, the "gud ole daze" when 80 - 100 hr weeks (with no O/T pay) were the norm! :laugh:

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                                  • K KP Lee

                                    English and no language in coding(move around wires to change the voltage transfer across capacitors and other electrical equipment and I have no memory of how it all worked. Since floating point operations wasn't a concept then, have no idea of it's speed. Since you could tell it was working by watching the voltage changes I doubt it was faster than 1 flops) yes, I still use English. First coding language COBOL, which I remember slightly better than those wires.

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                                    bobc4012
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                                    You mean like those old IBM 083s, 084s, etc. and those old IBM 4xxs? Sounds like you are in my category - "older than dirt"! :laugh:

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                                    • S svella

                                      English & APL. Yes and hell no for I hope obvious reasons!!!

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                                      bobc4012
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                                      APL - a man after my own heart. One of the great languages IBM never marketed! So much power in such brief statements. A debt owed to Ken Iverson (Kenneth E. Iverson).

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                                      • T Tim Carmichael

                                        Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.

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                                        Freak30
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                                        German and Commodore Basic. German is still my mainly used spoken language. I haven't used any Basic (except for a macro now and then) since I gave my C64 away.

                                        The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.

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                                        • K KLPounds

                                          English- With a Western Pennsylvania twist (creek=crick, roof=ruff, and words like costume sound like coshtume.. you all= yinz on occasion too. Lancaster= Lan-caster, not lankister) First language I was exposed to was TRS-80 Model 1 BASIC. I was very young so it's hard to say I ever used it with any regularity. But I have a couple elementary programs on a cassette tape. DOS Batch scripts and DBASE would probably count more as a regular use "language". GW/QBasic took me thru puberty. Then I decided I liked hardware more than software.. Went down the systems/networking path thru college so only dealt with vbs and Batch. I only turned back to software as a career in the last 8 or 9 years. I haven't touched a DBASE/Clipper application in maybe 5 years. I haven't written a meaningful Batch script also in about 5 years.. Last batch file of significance I believe was a result of some crap the DBASE/Clipper app needed :-D My career has put me in majority of Winforms VB.NET, more T-SQL scripting lately, C# only as required, occasional VBA and JavaScript, and the rare PowerShell script here and there. I know that kinda blurs lines for some people when defining "language".

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                                          Now yuinz sound like yuinz from "southwestern PA", around (or in) Pittsburgh. Now where I grew up, we used to jump into those cricks "yuze guise" thought were too cold. And first day of deer season was a "religious holiday"! Back when the lake froze over, they used to drive model As and Ts to Canada. If they weren't so pathetic now-a-daysl, I'd say "Go Browns"! :laugh:

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