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To: SeekAndFind

Me = Apple BASIC -> FORTRAN-77 -> Assembler -> PASCAL -> BASIC -> C 6.0 -> Visual C++ -> Visual C#. Probably the end of the line. You never know though.


9 posted on 02/27/2014 8:06:31 AM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
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To: McGruff

RE: Me = Apple BASIC -> FORTRAN-77 -> Assembler -> PASCAL -> BASIC -> C 6.0 -> Visual C++ -> Visual C#. Probably the end of the line. You never know though.

I see, the past decade you’re been with Microsoft... Steve Ballmer thanks you :)


12 posted on 02/27/2014 8:09:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: McGruff

Me: ~1980 “C”. -> 2014 “C”.


26 posted on 02/27/2014 8:32:53 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: McGruff
1802 ASM, 6502 ASM, BASIC, 8086 ASM, PL1, C, Pascal(Delphi), ADA, ARM ASM, AVR ASM... and a few others I have lost track of.


46 posted on 02/27/2014 9:03:04 AM PST by Bobalu (Happiness is a fast ISR)
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To: McGruff

C= BASIC, 6502 Bytecode (then someone showed me what an assembler was), 6502 Assembly, PASCAL, FORTRAN, C, PERL, JAVA, C++, Pro-C, Objective C, Ruby, C#, and probably another dozen or more scripting and other languages I have used to accomplish what needed to get done over the years.... Don’t think I’ll ever stop learning new languages, as the need arises.

The more I know, the more options I have. I run into folks all the time who have let their skills rust, even though I mostly code only as a hobby these days, most of my day to day stuff isn’t in the code itself, my pay grade is such that I provide the direction to the coders. Love to code, dream in code, but the pay for a straight coder is below my pay grade anymore.

A person may be a great foxpro coder, but when the company finally decides its had enough of that, and they have no other skill, you are the first ones out the door.


57 posted on 02/27/2014 9:54:09 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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