Wow - that was a LONG time ago. You left SDC in '64 whilst I left the Womb in '63. Gosh - I don't feel so old anymore!
:-) That being - at the co. where I work here - in the Developers area - I'm probably one of the oldest here. Of my team of 5 FoxPro dev's - I think 2 of them are older than me. But, amongst all the Dev's in general (everyone else Does VB, C# & .Net) - I'm one of the oldest. Now - you make me feel like a Kid again! HA! -K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Covill Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 1:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Gig at NASA? ALGOL was my first high-level (i.e., not assembler) language. Actually it was JOVIAL (Jules Own Version of IAL), an ALGOL clone built at System Development Corp in 1960, for whom I worked at the time. When I left SDC in 1964 I used real ALGOL on the Burroughs B5500 series. I continued through several employers until 1980. Still the best language I ever used. Dan Covill > On Oct 30, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I saw your posting this morning - on my Cell - and all I initially saw > was the Subject line - I thought to myself - "Awesome - a FoxPro job at NASA! > I always Wanted to be in Space Program." Alas - I was sadly mistaken. > Although I did Fortran back in my college days, along w/Assembler - I never > touched ALGOL. > > OH well... > > -K- > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Alan Bourke > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 5:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NF] Gig at NASA? > > How are your Assembler, FORTRAN and ALGOL skills, specifically on 50 Khz > General Electric 18-bit TTL CPUs, with single register accumulator and > bit-serial access to 2096-word plated-wire RAM? > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/30/has_voyager_1_escaped_the_sun_ > yet_yes_but_also_no_say_boffins/ > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/80838f1ca795b14ea1af48659f35166f255...@drexch02.corp.globetax.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
