> didn't like all the up-front code that had to be in a program for it to run.
I see two lines of "up-front."
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}
Charles
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Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 2:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Assembler courses
Never used PASCAL? I'm surprised. I haven't learned it yet, but when I first
heard about it (it had associative arrays, which I thought of as pretty darned
cool) I was fascinated. But for the first few years it was all BASIC, PL/1, a
little FORTRAN. Later it was all COBOL and CLIST. Nowadays it's all REXX and
various flavors of Visual Basic. Though I've never learned it myself, I had
the impression that PASCAL is in pretty wide use.
I bought myself a C compiler at one point, but tried it and never took it up
again; didn't like all the up-front code that had to be in a program for it to
run.
(My very first employer handed me a task to write a Backgammon game in FORTRAN.
It turns out I like writing such things, and my ancient memory tells me the
program I wrote played pretty well. I never did figure out why in the world
they wanted it, though. And it occurs to me now that maybe they meant only a
program that would allow two humans to play against each other.)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Joe
Monk
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 17:38
My GE 1101 (1st level Gen Engineering) class was PASCAL programming on a
DecSystem running TOPS20.
Never used it again.
--- On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 3:55 PM Brian Westerman <
brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote:
> ME Too!! I can't remember ever using my Fortran after the class was
> over. Luckily the instructor also offered an assembler class that he
> taught "on the side" for an extra $50. I still use the stuff he
> taught us almost every day.
>
> --- On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:29:01 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 <
> >I learned assembler early via OJT at one of my first permanent jobs, and
> got to use it more and more as I moved to other employers. Knowing
> assembler got me in the door at more than one of those employers.
> >
> >It was the FORTRAN I learned in engineering college that I never used
> anywhere else.
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