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briandmyers  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Which job path would you recommend me to get, hubski?

    BASIC

Found your problem :-)





kleinbl00  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What, like TPascal wasn't a problem?

Granted - the BASIC was contemporary. Prolly '81, '82. TPascal was in Windows 95 if I'm not mistaken. Any school that actually wanted you to learn programming had long since switched to Cplusplus... much like my program did, right after I transferred out of it.

...into another program that required us to run composite matrix transforms on the DEC Alpha in the basement, which involved compiling mutherfucking fortran in 1998.

That peaced me out of programming pretty effectively.

briandmyers  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·  

By the time Windows came around, Turbo Pascal was already well ruined by bloat, unfortunately.

I was using it back when DOS 3.1 was king. Yeah I'm old as dirt.