On 2020-11-27 14:21, carlos feldman wrote:
BUT..................
As an engineer and also a programmer, I love Fortran, PL/I, C, and even Quick Basic.
But I despise Java, Prolog, Lisp
What are your programming likes and dislikes ?
Started, in 1985, with Algol 60 and the keystroke code to program the
Texas Instruments TI-59 at university, dabbled a tiny bit with with Basic,
and followed that with Turbo Pascal (2.00, 3.01a, 6.00 & 7.01) at home,
and started with PL/I in 1985, and still use it 35 years later. Added REXX
on the big iron in the early 1990'ies.
In the 19I90'ies I did a little work for Texas Instruments, being about the
only person outside TI that could program their TI-95 programmable calculator in
TMS 7000 assembler, after having found out how to get into the (weakly)
protected system ROMs, and having disassembled the entire "OS".
Returned to (Virtual) Pascal in about 2008, but nowadays only use it to hack the
resulting assembler output to pieces, even going as far as adding the x86
instructions that it doesn't support as long "db" sequences, kind of like the
old TP 2/3 "inline" statement. ;) (It's been abandonware since 2004 and the
builtin assembler only supports CPUs up to Pentium)
And I've also started using (Regina) REXX on the PC, it's lack of EXECIO was
always a big drawback, but the ANSI "with output stem whatever." seems to cater
for most of my (mundane) needs.
And I "wrote" about half-a-dozen of E15 exits in assembler for Y2K, to
handle some of
the more exotic/signalling six-character dates.
Absolutely hate the bloatware that produced nowadays, RECV390 by Edgar Hofmann
extracts files from XMIT'ed PDS'es in 39K, a version in Java by one
"dewittlknapp" comes
comes in a 52.3 Mb download, and another one in Java ("only" 210kb)
needs an additional
200Mb of OpenJDK stuff. Pass me a bucket...
Robert
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