What was the "Next Big Thing" when you started programming?
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Hexadecimal. Seriously. :)
Not that ancient actually :) just got my start at the tender age of 13. I was lucky enough to find the Computer Education Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois in 1973. Their mainframe was a CDC Cyber 73, which for whatever reason, used an octal number system. Just what a growing teenager needed to stay out of trouble in the 70s. :)
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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 world wide web. Of course, I didn't realize it'd ever be this big of a thing :) But that was when I was in college. The big thing when I learned programming was... the personal computer. I was so envious when a friend of mine got one of those new IBM 5150 Personal Computers.
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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