From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T08:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as First Language

John W. Kennedy wrote:
> In one respect, we were lucky in the old days. Both of the 1401 
> assembler languages were easy -- even the machine language was pretty 
> straightforward. (It's been nearly 40 years since I last dealt with a 
> real 1401, and nearly as long since I last dealt with an emulated one, 
> but I could still write a self-booting program today.) It gave you a 
> sense of the real machine that's hard to get nowadays.
> 
I spent 5 or 6 years writing IBM 370 assembler starting in 1983 and I 
though _I_ was an old-timer, but my hat's off to you! Ain't the Ruby 
community grand?