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May 25, 2022
10:01:16am

TheWanderer Royalist

No, did not learn (born after vacuum tube computers). Yes, have heard of them.

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TheWanderer

Bio page: TheWanderer
Joined: Mar 18, 2016
Last login: Jun 19, 2024
Total posts: 11,219 (1,450 FO)

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Time

POLL: Did you learn any of these languages? If so, which

Archaea

5/25/22 9:55am

You'd have to be a real OG computer scientist to have used FORTRAN with punch cards in your career

letthewookieewin

5/25/22 9:58am

BYU taught it back in the day. I can't imagine anyone still using it.

Archaea

5/25/22 10:00am

Fortran is still used in a bunch of legacy scientific and defense codes. Slowly getting replaced and updated.

5/25/22 10:04am

It is amazing it has had such a long life

Archaea

5/25/22 10:04am

Ive heard (from a source I consider reliable) that this is so. I've also heard that people who are proficient in FORTRAN

Smack'sWife

5/25/22 10:53am

Learned Basic and Fortran at BYU around 1980. Could I still use them? Sure

ColoSpgs

5/25/22 10:05am

There was nothing worse than dropping your stack of punch cards.

snowcat

5/25/22 10:55am

No, did not learn (born after vacuum tube computers). Yes, have heard of them.

TheWanderer

5/25/22 10:01am

How does PASCAL not make the list? Irrelevant? Thanks, BYU....

Hawk in the 303

5/25/22 10:08am

I remember that too.

Archaea

5/25/22 10:09am

Back then too? When I was there they focused a ton on Java when I always figured learning C++ was a far

Bert609

5/25/22 10:27am

We still fly satellites that use some ancient code--and there's no way to upgrade them

ColoSpgs

5/25/22 10:10am

cool

lightmann

5/25/22 11:11am

“Fortran for the humanities”

Florwood

5/25/22 10:19am

PL/1

Hinta

5/25/22 10:24am

No Assembly, Hex, and Binary 16-bit??

Bert609

5/25/22 10:25am

You're too techy for me. I was just a beginning nerd. You were and are

Archaea

5/25/22 10:28am

It was one of the first EC-EN classes. I never got good at it, but in truth it was one of the best classes I had a BYU

Bert609

5/25/22 10:31am

There is something very satisfying about writing and running assembly language subroutines. I wouldn't want to do

dilbert

5/25/22 10:44am

No, I started with C++.

panacablue

5/25/22 10:38am

FORTRAN, COBOL, Basic ...

fan_byu

5/25/22 10:54am

I used basic and tried cobol for a few months. Nerd hobbies.

Belboz

5/25/22 10:59am

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