I always liked Fortran. Shame it died out....
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I just got asked about a line of code I wrote in March 2006.
And no I did not remember. I am not that sad. honest!Comment
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At the moment I'm still fighting the compiler & the syntax.Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostIf you know this:
I reckon you'll be fine with Pascal.
I loved Pascal to bits. Mind you, my brain is structured that way.
As for 'C' with all its implied GOTOs, I don't know how any proper programmer can cope with it.
I suppose I'll eventually get it to do something moderately sensible...
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I can remember stuff I wrote in the 1980s.Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI just got asked about a line of code I wrote in March 2006.
And no I did not remember. I am not that sad. honest!
Sort of.
At least, I can remember writing it & what it did...
I was rather pleased with a utility I wrote to chkdsk the 8" ISIS-II floppy disks on the Intel MDS-II blue box...
As far as I'm aware, it didn't come as standard.
So I wrote one on a GA16-220 mini in FORTRAN IV....
We had a lot of problems with crosslinked files & such like.Comment
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