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May 25, 2022
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fan_byu
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FORTRAN, COBOL, Basic ...
6502 Assembly, Pascal, IBM JCL, C, C++, 8502 Assembly, 8086 Assembly ...
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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.
IAmSpartyCoug
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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