First True Love?
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
There is only one language which sums up everything that is right about this profession: [clickity][^]
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
My first love is still Graphs. That theory is till my favorite to read. In programming languages I have a huge crush in c++. I like F# but I don't know if it loves me :( We are not in good terms with c#, but everybody has to do sacrifices.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
Way back in the dark ages I first learned some assembly language (IBM 1620, if you're interested), then FORTRAN and worked as a FORTRAN programmer and tutor to get through engineering school. One day I needed some fairly sophisticated algorithms and found them published in the ACM in Algol. Yes, I learned that there were other computer languages and the logical constructs and block structure in Algol just seemed logical. So I learned Algol and figured out how to run Algol subroutines in my FORTRAN software. That was my "First Love", but Pascal is pretty close to how Algol was, so jumping to Pascal after was easy. I did a lot of programming in the various flavors of Turbo/Borland Pascal.
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There is only one language which sums up everything that is right about this profession: [clickity][^]
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
There is only one language which sums up everything that is right about this profession: [clickity][^]
I'd vote this a 5 if I could... twice.
Jeremy Falcon
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mikepwilson wrote:
Turbo Pascal 3, as that (I think) was when they introduced OO stuf
Nope, 5.5 . I never used 3, started with 4 -- but only after learning Pascal on a PDP-11. I don't use any Pascal now and can't read my old programs, but I have Pascal compilers for my OpenVMS systems if I want to try.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
That was really that long? Wow. My brain is going fuzzy. I wonder if you can still get those old versions. Borland used to have them available. well that was easy[^]
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
BasicPlus on a PDP-11 in high school, then Pascal, but once I learned C, that was it. Now I do mostly C# (and SQL) and use C just for fun. I've been having such fun the last few days -- I dug out my old ODBC 3.5 (1999) book and have been playing with it. I suppose I could grab some of my old (Turbo) Pascal code out and try it on one of my AlphaServers if I really wanted to.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
BBC Basic...then ARM assembler.
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
I never felt in love with languages (I did with Assembly, BASIC and Pascal at the beginning, and COBOL, C/C++, VB, C#, JavaScript and PHP later) but with graphics development! I just in love with making of different purpose graphics library since 6502...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
I learned Pacsal in college but never used it in real life, went straight from college to using assembler on my first real job then taught myself C. Ah those were the days.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
Probably Delphi. I had started in basic coding a while before, with APL and C (from K&R, of course), and a little while before getting into Delphi my dad had got us a Win 95 machine on which I could experiment with Java. I did enjoy that, but didn't love it. Then we got Delphi (5) and the way the framework and language work together to make the things you want to do easy, but the things you only occasionally want to do still possible, was brilliant. Unlike Java and C# it is still a traditional compile-to-opcodes language so it has the speed and native interface advantages of C++ and the ability to go pointer chasing when you need to, allowing low level access to libraries like OpenGL or DirectX, but the design of the language and the framework means that you can usually write code as if you were fully managed. Many of the best features of C# and .Net (properties, the Framework classes, the forms designer and separation of UI definition from code, data binding, System.Data ...) are inspired by or copied from Delphi, as MS poached a few people from the Borland team when they were developing .Net 1.0.
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
FORTRAN, now this is after I took my first BASIC class, after which I swore off programming forever, still the worst programming experience in my life. Being good at math at the time, I had a teacher suggest I try FORTRAN, I did and the skies opened to this lovely thing called structure, I was hooked! I give BASIC a bad rap, but in hindsight it was the teacher and his "just use another GOTO" attitude, that had me pulling my hair out.
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
Visual Basics, I made a Whack A' Mole game using an image of a friend's head as the "Mole". BitBit!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Probably Delphi. I had started in basic coding a while before, with APL and C (from K&R, of course), and a little while before getting into Delphi my dad had got us a Win 95 machine on which I could experiment with Java. I did enjoy that, but didn't love it. Then we got Delphi (5) and the way the framework and language work together to make the things you want to do easy, but the things you only occasionally want to do still possible, was brilliant. Unlike Java and C# it is still a traditional compile-to-opcodes language so it has the speed and native interface advantages of C++ and the ability to go pointer chasing when you need to, allowing low level access to libraries like OpenGL or DirectX, but the design of the language and the framework means that you can usually write code as if you were fully managed. Many of the best features of C# and .Net (properties, the Framework classes, the forms designer and separation of UI definition from code, data binding, System.Data ...) are inspired by or copied from Delphi, as MS poached a few people from the Borland team when they were developing .Net 1.0.
BobJanova wrote:
traditional compile-to-opcodes language so it has the speed and native interface advantages of C++
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/02/announcing-net-native-preview.aspx[^] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/dn642499.aspx[^]
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
Good to know about your true love. Although I started with Pascal programming as a academic course, Unfortunately I was not in love. There was one good reason, the person who taught me was unable to convey the best. Later on, I was truly in love with C Programming, Data Structures, Assembly programming etc. The moment when I graduated, things started changing when I started working with C# .NET, J2EE, J2ME. Then I decided to stick with one technology. Slowly I came to know that the technology is a key in implementing but there is a much bigger animal called domain, which we all have to be aware of and that's how I started with domain driven design. You will have to wait for another 3 days to see my article getting published on the technology that I'm talking about :laugh: Thanks,
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Visual Basics, I made a Whack A' Mole game using an image of a friend's head as the "Mole". BitBit!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
Visual Basics
:confused:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I was reading and answering comments from a fellow author when he told me that he had fallen in love with technology. And, by "technology", I assumed he really meant "programming", as that is his forte. So that got me thinking about my "first love" in relation to programming. I was a BASIC programmer, and had some significant experience with Z-80 assembly programming, when that sultry vixen, Pascal, blew me a kiss. Holy moley! I was smitten, but good. Everything (and I really mean *everything*) took a back seat to Pascal for a while after that. Now, 20+ years later, I survive in this world by coding tsql or C# bits to keep my employer afloat. Pascal and I have maintained a furtive relationship over the years. I have all the Borland releases on floppy, one Inprise version of Pascal, and now Embarcadero's XE4. Only the Embarcadero version is in use. Yes, I use Pascal for my fun-time programming adventures...still! What a babe. :)
I first learned COBOL at Uni, then they taught us FORTRAN. Off my own bat, I then learnt Pascal and loved it. The following year, they taught us ALGOL which was kinda like an attention deficit version of Pascal in comparison. Loved Pascal, but only used it for personal stuff until I met C at which point I dropped Pascal like a stone and have never been back!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
Visual Basics
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The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Always called it plural, no clue. I know my basics? I am a bit basic? It is basically all the same in the long run. You just need a visual on your own future.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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BobJanova wrote:
traditional compile-to-opcodes language so it has the speed and native interface advantages of C++
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/02/announcing-net-native-preview.aspx[^] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/dn642499.aspx[^]
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That was really that long? Wow. My brain is going fuzzy. I wonder if you can still get those old versions. Borland used to have them available. well that was easy[^]
:laugh:
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I never felt in love with languages (I did with Assembly, BASIC and Pascal at the beginning, and COBOL, C/C++, VB, C#, JavaScript and PHP later) but with graphics development! I just in love with making of different purpose graphics library since 6502...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
Yeah. My first love was Pascal on the Apple IIe, but my first *mistress* was 6502 assembler. Never coded assembler for money. It's always been for fun. :)
