We are fortunate to have lived in time to see the progress from those early
days, to machines that actually think and very soon the emergence of AGI.
Ron Smith
r...@mrt4.com
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 20:04:55 +
From: Jeffry Smith
To:
Personally I've only used punch cards as free flash cards. My dad provided
them as he retired legacy systems when I was in kindergarten.
FWIW I was in the basement of a large company 4 years ago and stumbled
across two punch card machines that I thought were in storage, a week later
I discovered
On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:52:37PM -0400, jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com wrote:
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> So BASIC has a lot of detractors, mostly due to the infamous "GOTO".
FORTRAN's "computed goto" put that to shame ;)
> So here is to you, BASIC! You moved a lot of people forward.
Indeed.
-mm- (no thanks on
FORTRAN was the first programming language I learned. Then used it to
model laser modes for thesis. Punch cards. I don't remember what was the
university's mainframe called.
Today I'm still helping users who write, compile and run FORTRAN
programs on Linux servers.
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Šarūnas Burdulis
Thanks Jeff and Maddog. I learned Fortran II ( then Fortran IV) on an IBM
4044 in 1965 and GE timesharing basic. All input to the 4044 was punch
cards. Being in ROTC, I went right into the Army, then to Viet Nam. No
computers until 1970
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Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
