I wrote simple apps on a Vic 20 which had only a cassette tape to store and even run the apps from!
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF/programming experience from the list? On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:14:02 -0400, Will The Game <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to try and gauge where I'm at right now in terms of programming prowess by having everyone offer their experience with programming in general and CF. What most of you do is pretty amazing to me, so I'd like to know where I stand and what I need to do to get more like you guys! As others have said, the raw number of years is not always a good measure. I've known career programmers who really haven't improved since when they were newbies and I've also known some kick-ass youngsters. I started programming as a kid at school, writing Algol 60 to solve math problems around the age of 14 and programming a TI-58 calculator for all sorts of things. I moved on to BASIC in my late teens and then at university ('79) I started doing Pascal and, independently, learned FORTRAN, PL/1, several assembly languages and, later, LISP and Prolog. I graduated in '83 after writing an APL interpreter (in Pascal) and could write reasonably complex programs in about a dozen computer languages. I'd done commercial programming in C, COBOL and several assembly languages by this point. I did three years' research into computer language design and implementation techniques, while learning some other languages "for fun". I started doing more commercial C and Pascal during this time, then C++ in early '92 and Java in early '97 and finally ColdFusion in late 2001. So I guess I've been programming for fun and profit for around 30 years. Waaahhh! I'm OLD!!! I used to back up my code on punched tape. -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme Got Gmail? -- I have 49, yes 49, invites to give away! "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197357 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
