March 15, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: We had a friend's son over to visit who just graduated with a comp sci degree and took his first job programming in Ada. I didn't know anyone was using that anymore. Of course he's in the defense industry. I hadn't heard of Ada, apparently derived from Pascal which I dabbled in the early 90s...
March 15, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I hadn't heard of Ada, apparently derived from Pascal which I dabbled in the early 90s... Yep, I never used it. I did use Pascal in college which we used for every class except for that first Fortran class (btw - that Fortran class was punch cards). Ada was the language used for early AI initiatives or at least that was the idea.
March 15, 20232 yr 44 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: My very first comp sci class was in fortran. That was my only time using it. FORTRAN 77 is the future
March 15, 20232 yr 14 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I hadn't heard of Ada, apparently derived from Pascal which I dabbled in the early 90s... Pascal was more of a teaching language that served as a bridge between old scripts (BASIC) and more useful high level stuff (C) It was great to play with
March 15, 20232 yr 40 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: No, more tool or middleware/stack based products. One area was network/performance mgmt for telecoms systems sold to the operators and carriers. Another one was graphics middleware and tooling for electronics like mobile devices, cameras, printers, auto digital instrument display panels, etc. (anything embedded and constrained and with a decent screen and resolution). cool. never got into mobile development. I do mostly Spring-stack Java work. though I've done quite a bit of C# work as well.
March 15, 20232 yr 27 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: Pascal was more of a teaching language that served as a bridge between old scripts (BASIC) and more useful high level stuff (C) It was great to play with yeah I messed around with it mostly as a lad. wrote my first DOS executables in Pascal. first thing I "programmed" was in BASIC on a TI-99 4A
March 15, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: cool. never got into mobile development. I do mostly Spring-stack Java work. though I've done quite a bit of C# work as well. I've never done any C# stuff but we have a bunch of that these days. Seems to be a very popular language right now. For that mobile stuff, I wasn't developing but rather doing exec work. I ran the tech though as CTO and then overall as CEO.
March 15, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: yeah I messed around with it mostly as a lad. wrote my first DOS executables in Pascal. first thing I "programmed" was in BASIC on a TI-99 4A F'in A Same here. I had to save the programs using an audio cassette recorder and I kept using my mum's answering machine tapes. Did you have the "TI Invaders" (space invaders knock off) game cartridge? Mine came with it. We weren't allowed to have pure video game consoles in the house so that computer was a great workaround.
March 15, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, DrPhilly said: Fortran class (btw - that Fortran class was punch cards). Showing your age. Me too first year college. They used COBOL to run data collection on reactor systems at work and didn’t switch because they didn’t want to spend money to do so. Finally had to because nobody could fix bugs that popped up.
March 15, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Talkingbirds said: Showing your age. Me too first year college. They used COBOL to run data collection on reactor systems at work and didn’t switch because they didn’t want to spend money to do so. Finally had to because nobody could fix bugs that popped up. Yep, that was quite a while back. Speaking of COBOL, a buddy of mine was still doing COBOL gigs back in the Y2K years. He made a bundle during that last 18 months leading up the the New Year. He finally moved on and started developing in C++ and then Java at some point but he was doing COBOL for what seemed like forever.
March 15, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: Showing your age. Me too first year college. They used COBOL to run data collection on reactor systems at work and didn’t switch because they didn’t want to spend money to do so. Finally had to because nobody could fix bugs that popped up. 6 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Yep, that was quite a while back. Speaking of COBOL, a buddy of mine was still doing COBOL gigs back in the Y2K years. He made a bundle during that last 18 months leading up the the New Year. He finally moved on and started developing in C++ and then Java at some point but he was doing COBOL for what seemed like forever. Did you geriatrics run it on a TRASH-80?
March 15, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: Did you geriatrics run it on a TRASH-80? The name says it all. My punch card Fortran class was on an IBM-370. We then ran on Prime computers using a line by line editor and wrote in Pascal. That was in college.
March 15, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: The name says it all. My punch card Fortran class was on an IBM-370. We then ran on Prime computers using a line by line editor and wrote in Pascal. That was in college. Yikes.
March 15, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: Yikes. Not trending there yet but it is bound to come
March 15, 20232 yr 57 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: F'in A Same here. I had to save the programs using an audio cassette recorder and I kept using my mum's answering machine tapes. Did you have the "TI Invaders" (space invaders knock off) game cartridge? Mine came with it. We weren't allowed to have pure video game consoles in the house so that computer was a great workaround. I only had some crappy English grammar cartridge. By the time I got the TI it was pretty beat. But I learned my first programming on it.
March 15, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I only had some crappy English grammar cartridge. By the time I got the TI it was pretty beat. But I learned my first programming on it. No monitor either. Had to wire it into the TV rabbit ears
March 15, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: No monitor either. Had to wire it into the TV rabbit ears Channel 3 or 4? I always wired those RF adapters into 4.
March 16, 20232 yr Not-Z thugs are now shooting their own who refuse to be fed into the meatgrinder. What a Dallas!
March 16, 20232 yr Why would Russia want the wreckage of our downed drone when they could just go buy a fully intact, operational one from the Taliban?
March 16, 20232 yr 10 hours ago, Abracadabra said: Not-Z thugs are now shooting their own who refuse to be fed into the meatgrinder. What a Dallas! Yes I’m sure you prefer they way Russia deals with deserter, death by sledgehammer.
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