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Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com

I just got a brand new XPS 8950 and powered up for the first time on May 11. After connecting to the internet, Windows started to check for updates -- and hung! (The little blue arc on the circle just stopped) Finally Dell told me to do a clean shutdown and restart. Lo! Windows11 came up with no further difficulty, except that it is really ugly after ten years of Windows 7.

Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com

Coded in FORTRAN (before numbered versions) in 1962, IBM 7090. Fortunately graduated to assembler for CDC 3600 by 1964 (for a COBOL compiler)

Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com

July, 1940, but so far only the second oldest. I started with Fortran before it needed a number and did some coding in FAP, then coded in various assembly languages for mainframes, minis and micros. Along the way I picked up bits of COBOL, PL/I, BASIC, CBASIC, ALGOL... I am still grateful for C. For the past 15 years, I revel in Classic C++.

Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com

Fortunately CodeWright works just fine in Windows 7, and I'm not afflicted with tabbed documents. I can edit multiple files at a time and see all of them that will fit across my wide monitor.

Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com

What about SNOBOL which used the space as an operator whose meaning changed depending on where it appeared in the line of code? It was invented when code was keypunched so entabbed source code was physically impossible.

Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com