On Sep 14, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Actually I recall now it was fortran and pascal the science and
comp sci
grads were learning - Pascal was the big thing then - a true
"structured"
language etc etc but they hated it anyway thanks to the punch
cards.... The
comp sci guys also had to learn cobol, lots of fun there im sure
too...
The engineering dept was just starting to get into unix in my final
year -
the engineering postgrad research assistants had just replaced the
proprietary PDP11 OS with this new fangled thing called unix. None
of which
was on the course yet - but the phd guys seemed to think it was
very cool.
Remember the day one of them introduced me to the kernigan and
ritchie book,
if only I'd known how important that OS and book was .. Hindsight
eh...
And I wonder what would happen if some time-traveling
'spacemen' (namely, us) from - oh say, 2006 - were to show them a
modern PowerPC/Intel iMac running OS X, with Terminal.app open...
they'd probably worship us as gods!
Of course, that would start a time-causality loop the likes of
which could only be explained in a Star Trek:Next Generation
episode... Hee, hee... :)
On 15/9/06 02:51, "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
At the university I went to it was generally the other way round as
the engineering students wrote in fortran and we wrote assembler, C,
PL/1, and lots of other odd languages
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