> Heh, you and me both. I cut my teeth on IBM System/370 assembler. > Last > time I had a job where I actually did programming as part of it, it > was > System/390 machine code. That's right, machine code, not assembler; > I'd > directly type my hexadecimal programs into low storage at the > operator's > console.
Hah, if you haven't bootstrapped a VAX using the toggle switches on the front panel you ain't a real progammer ;-) Actually one of our local Universities still starts their computer science courses by teaching students how to do that, before moving them onto machine code, assembler, C and finally Java(*). It's like an historical tour of computing/programming. The machine code is done on little hex keypads with pocket calculator style printout rools! Its only when they get to C that they get to use a PC! (*) Actually they get to choose from several languages in their 4th (final) year, including Lisp and Prolog(both), Haskell and PL/SQL... They consistently produce very good graduates, so it seems to work. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
