If you liked Fortran, then you should have tried PASCAL. Sure it needed
some extensions but it was simple and it was very hard to write bad code.
A very good contractor wrote an assembler/OS interface to Pascal for us
on a PDP 11 (about 200 lines of code). That allowed us to create a
duplexed (failover cluster) production line control system in 1983
written in PASCAL. It also interfaced to some IBM mainframe (harder) and
a VAX (any youngsters, that's not the sucky thing, look it up).
I can still remember carrying the disk backups on a plane each week with
the necessary import and export documentation. Case had special
dispensation to be carry on luggage as it was as big as a small suitcase
(foam padding) but couldn't go in the hold. Total capacity of that case
2MB!
... but back to PASCAL all my code has a very familiar structure no
matter which of the myriad languages I've played with over the years so
I know what you mean.
Sorry, bit off topic I know but it's horrible weather outside...
On 29/03/2023 11:09, Jim web wrote:
In article <809b079f-cc32-2027-f825-520c77614...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C
E
Macfarlane - News <n...@macfh.co.uk> wrote:
On 28/03/2023 15:51, Jim web wrote:
Sorry to hear about your wife, commiserations to you both.
In article <a545ac1d-311a-32cd-d5f1-775a26e06...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH
- C E Macfarlane - News <n...@macfh.co.uk> wrote:
Might as well be sure, so what happens when you type: python --version
If that comes up with 3.7 as desired, what do you get for: pip --help
It gives me Python 2.7.17
However if I look in usr/lib/ I can see directories for Python 2.7, 3,
3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.
Different versions of Java,
FWIW I did once try learning and using Java. Gave up after a while because
by the time I'd written anything the methods became 'deprecated' as the
caravan morphed on at superluminal speed! 8-[
So I've stuck with my shoddy use of 'C'. No style, just: "does this give me
the coconut?!" 8-] Oh well, at least I've stopped using FORTRAN. Although
people who know both can see that my 'C' looks like "FORTRAN in
disguise"...
(snipped useful info)
When I can, I'll try again to install the new yt-dlp version again from
scratch. Use a different tack and see. If it doesn't work, I'll give up and
do something else.
Jim
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