Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[Ian S. King]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> On 02/19/2015 04:42 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>
>  Of course, I started writing FORTRAN on an 029 keypunch..
>>
>
> That wasn't very good practice, was it?  Write on a coding form (or
> paper), then punch, run an 80-80 list on a 407 and hand check, correct and
> then submit.


Yeah, I used to give my instructor heartburn - I'd sit at the keypunch and
compose programs.  They ran, though.


-- 
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington

There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."