Naaaaah!
You need to read "The Story of Mel" to see what _real_ programmers do!
73, Jim  KQ6EA (who's running 2.0.16 and luvin' it!)

On 11/12/2010 01:02 AM, Steve Potter wrote:
> What's wrong with you all.... these high level languages are for
> g**ls....cobol, forth, list, basic, pascal etc  
> Assembler... if more people stayed with the beast then we would be on
> the Z88 by now... with maybe 1Mb ram too
>
> Z80 assembler programmer and proud of it. Published too.
>
> Steve
> G6HOQ
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
> [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Alan NV8A
> Sent: 12 November 2010 00:51
> To: FlexRadio Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective
>
> On 11/11/10 07:14 pm, Fred Spinner wrote:
>
>   
>> Nope.  Close:
>>
>> : HELLO ." Hello World" ;
>>
>> HELLO
>>
>> (the ." was the "PRINT" statement)
>>
>> I always thought it the sign of a TRUE programmer/software engineer if
>>     
>   
>> they had Leo Brodie's "Starting FORTH" from FORTH, Inc. in their
>>     
> bookshelf.
>   
>> I did FORTH for about three years.  Which is amazing for a 41 year
>>     
> old.
>   
>> I miss that language.  It proved that you didn't need a Six Core AMD
>>     
> processor to do a lot of work!
>
> I dabbled in many languages. I still have the Brodie book, also his
> _Thinking FORTH_. I played with FORTH a little on my first computer, a
> brown-case Osborne 1.
>
> 73
>
> Alan NV8A
>
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