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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie
Soundtrack?]
Reggie Bautista wrote:
George wrote:
In my first
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:44:39 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
I've used VBA quite a bit, almost exclusively in Excel manipulating test
data. I now program quite a bit in LabView... I'm sure there are a few
opinions about that particular language if you are familiar with it.
Any volunteers? 8^)
I
I learned BASIC, COBOL, then Pascal and FORTRAN simultaneously, then PL/I
and IBM 360 (yep, that long ago) Assembly Language. My favorite language is
still Pascal though I have never seen it used outside the educational
community. I have progammed over half a million lines of FORTRAN on a VAX
G. D. Akin wrote:
I learned BASIC, COBOL, then Pascal and FORTRAN simultaneously, then PL/I
and IBM 360 (yep, that long ago) Assembly Language. My favorite language is
still Pascal though I have never seen it used outside the educational
community. I have progammed over half a million lines of
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is RPG? I know two things that use this AFT, but
none of them are computer languages.
RPG stands for Report Program Generator.
When I began my Computer Sciences courses in the mid-late 80's, the order in
which languages were taught was:
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a
computer programming language that uses instructions
that resemble natural language.
This is your feeling, but not mine. I think a computer
language that adds unnecessary symbols make it harder
to
David wrote (that's David H., I think):
My impression is that C was designed for people who
could not type rapidly. I agree, once you really know the
syntax and all the commands, shorter is better. But one
has to get to that point somehow! For instance, we could
type English more
