Age

Hi Born in the year of the transistor. My first programming experiences were 6800 and 8080 machine code. I then went on to use PLM-80, a little PASCAL and BASIC. My first computer was a Poly-88 that I bought used for $400. I was one of the ones that went to the West Coast Computer Fair to buy my first floppy drive. While there, I picked up a listing of Forth. Up to that time, writing large programs was a mystery to me. How was it that one could use something like BASIC to actually do something significant. Forth taught me how to factor problems and because of its natural flow to create significant programs on the fly. For a long time, I tried to convince people how right Forth was compared to other languages. I've since come to realize that people all think differently. Some like the comfort of natural languages ( BASIC ) while others like the compactness of programs ( APL ). Some feel that millions can't be wrong ( C ), while others like to explore the abstract ( SmallTalk ). I just like to get working programs as quick as I can so I can fiddle some more with the hardware. Each to their own. Dwight