I learned BASIC, COBOL, then Pascal and FORTRAN simultaneously, then PL/I and IBM 360 (yep, that long ago) Assembly Language. My favorite language is still Pascal though I have never seen it used outside the educational community. I have progammed over half a million lines of FORTRAN on a VAX 11/780 using DEC's Fortran-77 and a few thousand lines of VAX assembly.
I've taught college-level courses in BASIC, PASCAL, COBOL, FORTRAN, and PL/I. More recently, I fiddle with Visual Basic and find that I like it quite a bit, especially VBA with Access. George A ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:14 PM Subject: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy MovieSoundtrack?] > Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: > > > > If I have to choose between coding COBOL and coding RPG, > > I would much rather go for COBOL. > > > What is RPG? I know two things that use this AFT, but > none of them are computer languages. > > > I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a > > computer programming language that uses instructions > > that resemble natural language. > > This is your feeling, but not mine. I think a computer > language that adds unnecessary symbols make it harder > to understand what the code is doing. Properly formatted, > languages with _less_ symbols are more clear. I like, > for example, to compare C with Pascal. > > Alberto Monteiro > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
