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What was your first programming language? Favorite? Least Favorite?
gerald_clark:
First: Fortran 4 Waterloo Fortran.
Least favorite: COBOL.
Favorite: C
Other Favorites:
Perl for power and ease of programming.
FORTH for just plain weirdness and fun. I implemented FIG FORTH for OSI 6502 based computers about 30 years ago.
jpeters:
I'm happy to announce that I still have an Atari ST available (only one left) that uses the Motorolla 8-bit 6800 CPU (perfect for bmarkus' FORTH software!)
* recently upgraded with COLOR monitor, dual sided floopy drives, increased RAM.
* thrown in is the latest version of Pagestream (printing software....14 font disks).
Although I paid about $4,000 for the complete setup (comes with midi cords), I'd be willing to let it go for a small discount.
* They don't make computers like this anymore!
bmarkus:
Regarding Forth, I just finished the bigforth extension, I will submit it today.
gerald_clark:
Now all we need is a really big telescope.
Lee:
Thanks jpeters, for the example and link re. tcl/tk.
Béla, I was just kidding about "a nice modern, 32 bit Forth" but, having followed the link to the bigForth site, I'm intrigued by it. Thanks for the info. OT: I don't suppose you did that nuclear plant work at Westinghouse in the 1980's?
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