Never used PASCAL? I'm surprised. I haven't learned it yet, but when I first heard about it (it had associative arrays, which I thought of as pretty darned cool) I was fascinated. But for the first few years it was all BASIC, PL/1, a little FORTRAN. Later it was all COBOL and CLIST. Nowadays it's all REXX and various flavors of Visual Basic. Though I've never learned it myself, I had the impression that PASCAL is in pretty wide use.
I bought myself a C compiler at one point, but tried it and never took it up again; didn't like all the up-front code that had to be in a program for it to run. (My very first employer handed me a task to write a Backgammon game in FORTRAN. It turns out I like writing such things, and my ancient memory tells me the program I wrote played pretty well. I never did figure out why in the world they wanted it, though. And it occurs to me now that maybe they meant only a program that would allow two humans to play against each other.) --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Justice: When you get what you deserve Mercy: When you don't get what you deserve Grace: When you get what you don't deserve */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Joe Monk Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 17:38 My GE 1101 (1st level Gen Engineering) class was PASCAL programming on a DecSystem running TOPS20. Never used it again. --- On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 3:55 PM Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > ME Too!! I can't remember ever using my Fortran after the class was > over. Luckily the instructor also offered an assembler class that he > taught "on the side" for an extra $50. I still use the stuff he > taught us almost every day. > > --- On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:29:01 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 < > >I learned assembler early via OJT at one of my first permanent jobs, and > got to use it more and more as I moved to other employers. Knowing > assembler got me in the door at more than one of those employers. > > > >It was the FORTRAN I learned in engineering college that I never used > anywhere else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN