> over 30 years.
> Scary. But the real scary part is that it was on punch cards.
> (somewhere in storage I still have a copy of one of those
> programs - about the only one that wasn't turned into a
> Christmas wreathe).
I have only been out of college a couple years now and remember thinking how
I would have loved to have been able to learn to program back in the day
like you. I think having a better understanding of early generation
programming languages would help not only myself, but students of
programming as a whole get a grasp on what the hell they are doing!!!...
With all the drag and drop crap of today, it makes things easier but it sure
takes something out of the art as well. I knew people that could use Visual
Studio to knock out a fairly simple program in C++ but the minute you asked
them to explain how pointers worked or how hardware and interrupts worked,
they had not the foggiest notion.
Oh well... My Visual Studio just crashed, I should reboot. :-)
Mike
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