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 From: admin@127.0.0.1 
  
 On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:41:02 +1100 
 Daniel65  wrote: 
  
 > Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 12/12/23 4:26 pm: 
 [Time for a snip] 
 > >>> 
 > >>> [Hal Heydt] 
 > >>> More about languages than you might suppose.  Dorothy had a 
 > >>> degree in Linguistics.  Me...the only languages (other than 
 > >>> English) that I can deal with are for programming computers. 
 > >> 
 > >> As in C, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC ... 
 > > 
 > > [Hal Heydt] 
 > > I *can* write in C, though not well.  I spent a lot of years 
 > > writing in COBOL, and I can make it do things that aren't always 
 > > meant to be possible.  FORTRAN is kind of rusty.  I started with 
 > > FORTAN II and later got FORTRAN IV (pretty easy transition). 
 > > Never learned Pascal.  BASIC I get by in because I knew FORTRAN. 
 > > Also learned and/or used a number of assembly languages...  SPS 
 > > IID, Autocoder, ALC (aka BAL), COMPASS.  (Points to those that 
 > > can identify the machines or operating system those apply to.) 
 > > 
 > > Also got reasonably decent with SQL, which might or might not be 
 > > considered a "laungauge". 
 > > 
 > > And then there's there other stuff like RPG and some similar 
 > > languages whose names I've forgotten.  And the languages that I 
 > > learned at one point and now can't even recall the names of.  Ah, 
 > > yes...  ALGOL was one of them. 
 > > 
 > In the late 80's/early 90's, I did (little bits of) BASIC, Fortran and 
 > Pascal programing. Some writing in '1' and 'none' i.e. 'Zero' which then 
 > got compiled on to Intel 8085, Zilog Z80 or Motorola 6809 CPU's and I 
 > also taught basic/simple programing on those CPU's. 
  
 You both might profit from subscribing to news:alt.folklore.computers where 
 olden computing stuff is aired. And even modern stuff such as PCs 
 running DOS. 
  
 xpost left in, as I can't tell where Daniel65 is based, (I'm seeing this 
 in rasf) but it would do us all a favour if the drwho chat was kept in the 
 correct NGs. TIA. 
  
  
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