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Article #484Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please]
From: Ian Staples
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:24
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:24
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Selectively quoting from what Ian Lowery <ianl@nospam.curie.dialix.com.au> wrote in article <f6qtrscqb5f8potac2mfbb8p90kjq3jk6n@4ax.com>: >ianst@refer.to.sig.au.invalid (Ian Staples) wrote: > >>My first "on line" data entry and programming (FORTRAN) > >Eeek! Fortrash! Dreadful language, IIRC, one of its biggest advantages was that you were restricted to 6-character file names[1]. This was excellent preparation for the subsequent world of MS-DOS -- I've never felt at all limited by the extravagent length of 8-character file names that others seemed to find so inadequate. >You never got to stick your foot out when somebody was carrying a load >of punch cards? UQ was clearly before its time by going interactive while the rest of the world punched on. But, again IIRC, to set up batch jobs on the PDP-10 you had to pretend you were submitting a stack of cards. :-) >I do too. There is a limit to what I can do on the scrreen. Making >texta notes on the screen doesn't work very well. Use a whiteboard pen next time... [1] Or was that a limitation of the DECSystem monitor, rather than FORTRAN per se? Can't remember at this distance. Note: a.l.b dropped from followups. Cheers, Ian S. (who was here long before that pretender, as is clearly demonstrated by the fact I've already got to S and he's still stuck in L). ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,5aba3994e6274daa X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 10ab99,a599dc4ee8a84eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ab99,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-13 01:25:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!usenet.net.nz!203.97.37.7!news.xtra.co.nz!news1.optus.net.au!optus!bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au!mbapc103854 From: ianst@refer.to.sig.au.invalid (Ian Staples) Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic,aus.computers.ibm-pc Subject: Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please] Followup-To: aus.computers.ibm-pc Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:24:48 GMT Organization: Speaking Personally Lines: 40 Message-ID: <8pndlc$c3m$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> References: <39B58359.C2227A06@bigpond.com> <8p432t$rpq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39B7B76F.AEC65149@bigpond.com> <C8Rt5.10441$qL5.69289@news3.atl> <39B9D753.3C551805@bigpond.com> <4vqu5.2934$Ik.16682@news2.atl> <bIsu5.560$6f1.70169@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <mkNu5.525$%p.2653@news1.atl> <8pi4pn$msb$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> <f6qtrscqb5f8potac2mfbb8p90kjq3jk6n@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dpi-gw.dpi.qld.gov.au X-Trace: bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au 968833516 12406 203.25.1.208 (13 Sep 2000 08:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@uq.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Sep 2000 08:25:16 GMT X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01