From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T12:00:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Confession: I never did ASM

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> On 10/4/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> 3. I don't know about the rest of the folks here, but I'm getting really
>> tired of learning new programming languages.
> 
> Ed,
> 
> You've earned it. :) You've probably forgotten more about programming
> than many of us on this list have yet learned. While I was cutting my
> coding teeth in grade school on Applesoft and Integer BASICs on an
> Apple II+, you had already learned, what, Assembly (several flavors),
> FORTRAN, a few BASICs, JCL, some COBOL, umm... probably some Ada... am
> I close? :)
> 
> -A
> 
> 
Well ... not exactly. By the time Apple II came out, I had learned Lisp 
1.5, FORTRAN, several flavors of assembler, NELIAC, Dartmouth Basic, no 
COBOL or Ada, and a little Floating Point Systems AP-120B microcode. But 
I really thought Forth was going to catch on -- BASIC on the Apple and 
TRS-80 and Commodore 64 and all the other 8-bit machines sucked so bad, 
and there weren't really C compilers worthy of the name. I thought Forth 
was it ... forever.

Maybe it was. :)