Surprisingly, I found BASIC quite difficult and C easier. One of the reasons was I hated all
the GOTO statements and jumping around BASIC. Yes - it did teach me the principles of
what a program...
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Surprisingly, I found BASIC quite difficult and C easier. One of the reasons was I hated all
the GOTO statements and jumping around BASIC. Yes - it did teach me the principles of
what a program...
I 100% agree with that statement. Finding a use for ADA is very
tough - as these days it is used in railroad systems, medical systems
and security and data-basing. Although it is OOP (1995...
Interesting. Thanks for the link too, much appreciated. It's also quite a scary
prospect that a logical error in a program would cause a rocket to have to be
destroyed. I do hope they got it right...
Great story and a really interesting read. :)
You are one of few people I know of who have done more than
peeked at the FORTAN language (if that is what FORTH is). Great
language - used for huge...
Great insight Greg thanks for sharing :)
Yeah I remember the Vic-20 and the C64 too - amazing machines for the decade they
were around too. Reminds me of when I later moved to the Amiga (also a...
When I was first learning how to program, I used BASIC on the
old Acorn Computers (they barely had 250MB of RAM back then.
There were hardly any IDE's, C was around and C++ of course, but
it was...