C64? Wow, advanced! I remember working with the Vic-20 and even the Commodore PET, back at school.
Basic was largely unavoidable at the time, but by the time I'd worked my way up to the C46 (and even the C128) I'd also gotten around to typing in my own C-compiler (from the back of a magazine, I kid you not! Parental help was required and I'll spare you stories of typing-error problems...) which had to be painstakingly loaded from tape every time I started the computer. Even then, boilerplate was annoying, perhaps the lack of *any* sensible text-editing features was a driving force here. I'd started working with LOGO (still at primary school here) Later, around age 11-12 I was upgrading schools - and also upgrading languages. Scheme had already been established for a few years, C++ was fairly well known and Common Lisp was no longer wet behind the ears. I played with them all. Java came later, I was studying Elec.Eng, but friends studying Comp.Sci. still came to me for help. As this often involved offers of free beer I rarely turned down such a request, so found myself learning the language that was then being popularly taught. After Uni, I was working as a programmer, using Pascal. Horrible language, I try my hardest to forget about it. Then a career in Java, working my way up the seniority ladder and doing some architecture work. Then most recently, the next big thing was Scala. I finally got back the beloved functions that had been missing from my professional life and are fondly remembered from as far back as primary school. Having already been won over to the benefits of the JVM, garbage collection, etc. this seemed like a perfect match. Clojure arrived after that. But, hey, I like static typing :) I also study Haskell, but purely for my own amusement. On 2 October 2010 16:07, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > 10 PRINT "COOL" > 20 GOTO 10 > > If the uppercase offends you, just hit the 'change case' key on your > C64. > > On Oct 2, 4:36 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Scott Melton <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Basic. > > > > Basic is definitely not receiving enough credit, in my opinion. Actually, > > it's being unjustly vilified. Who was it again who said that anyone who > > started programming with Basic was irrecoverably corrupt and would never > > become a good programmer? > > > > I bet that a lot of people on this list started programming with Basic > > (myself included), and I think we turned out alright :-) > > > > -- > > Cédric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
