On 31/08/2020 17:01, druck wrote:
> On 30/08/2020 16:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 19:49:09 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>>> I started programming in 1978 and have a slightly different take on it.
>>>
>> Unspotted mistake - for 1978 read 1968 - that was when I joined ICL and
>> learned PLAN assembler.
>
> I was going to pull you up on that as Cobol was well established by 78,
> but figured from the rest of the post that wasn't right.
>
> In any case I was born in 1968, and started programming on the BBC Micro
> in the early 80s, so luckily I avoided Cobol then and ever since.
>
> ---druck
I first coded in FORTRAN. all there was then was ALGOL, FORTRAN and COBOL.

Then came B, BCPL and C...and then after that trash languages designed
to let monkeys think they could code



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