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Venture Beat ^ | 02/27/2014 | J.O. Dell

[Organic Panic]

Old Basic Afflicted Marxist Application

[Political Junkie Too]

//SYSIN DD DUMMY
//

-PJ

[COBOL2Java]

what...no COBOL?

Well, not since Y2K for me. My journey:

• Mid-to-late 80's: COBOL. Thousands of lines of code! Seven-layer arrays, statistical programs that run for days! yeah!
• Early 90's: Relational databases, DBA certification, CICS. Wow! COBOL on a screen and using DB2!
• Late 90s: Java! WWW! Y2K! World's gonna end! Lotsa $$ fixing old COBOL stuff!
• Early 2000's: World didn't end! [takes a bow for preventing it]. HTML, VB, MS Access, Sys Admin Certification
• Early 10's: Getting into management, missing programming, still puttering around in VB. Technical writing.
• Post 10's: .NET, but only know enough to manage team of really smart .NET developers. Still do some Sys Admin stuff.

[Born to Conserve]

We had an antique Burrough’s adding machine that was rigged up with solenoids and such, to a telex line. You could telex data to it, and it would send the answer back. We also could run punched paper tape in and out of it. We were really smart.

[Nowhere Man]

I miss BASIC. B-) If I had the time, (I have lots of issues, Mom passed away, need to unload the house and find an apartment, etc) there is a side of me that wants to drag out my old Apple //e and TI-99/4A and putter around with them for a while.

[Nowhere Man]

Thanks! I’d like to learn C myself so thanks for the pdf download. Can you suggest a good C compiler that works in XP/Vista?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I miss BASIC

Then you would love its extension that does almost everything --- VISUAL BASIC .NET

It's very popular and used by millions of developers.

[Nowhere Man]

Humor break, this is my favorite form the late 1980's to now:

GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y)
GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y)

B-D

[Nowhere Man]

Does it still use the number line systems like:

10 PRINT "OBONGO SUCKS!"
20 GOTO 10

RUN

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Thanks! I’d like to learn C myself so thanks for the pdf download. Can you suggest a good C compiler that works in XP/Vista?

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This Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft does everything -— C, C++, C#.

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-US/products/visual-studio-express-vs

[SeekAndFind]

That program won’t stop :)

[Bobalu]

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

http://www.christian-heffner.de/

[Nowhere Man]

Thanks.

[Nowhere Man]

Thanks.

[SeekAndFind]

You’re welcome. BTW, I think You know that GOTO statemens are frowned upon...

They tend to produce spaghetti code.

[Nowhere Man]

Thanks

[Nowhere Man]

I know, it is better to use GOSUB, but I think the program I “wrote” drives home the point. B-) I remember GOTO statements should be limited.

[proxy_user]

I don’t see how you can say that. Most of the large enterprise applications are Java J2EE. If you log onto your bank’s web site to view your account and pay bills, chances are you are using a Java application.

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, BTW, I did find a program in TRS-80 BASIC that I've been searching for since high school (1982/85) a few days ago called "Hog Jowl Mansion" where I always wanted to type it into an Apple ][ series or even my TI-99/4A. My buddy had it for his TRS-80 Color Computer but he does not have the system anymore. We had lots of fum playing it. I'm also looking for another game that was fun then called "Venture" (NOT the video game, but that was fun too) where it was like a trail and it clocked your miles as yo go from encounter to encounter in the quest to save the Princess. You encounter goblins who may want any women you have, including the princess and if you turn her over, you are executed if you reach the end. Also other hazzards where monsters who you fight to the death, trolls, pits and the Dreaded Necromancer who takes your women and/or turns you into a "gelded water buffalo and driven into a pit" unless you're lucky enough to run. I remember playing this around 1982 or so on the Apple //e but it was typed in from a magazine. We had loads of laughs.

BTW, my buddy often used his Color Computer as a "transportable." He brought it to school many times in his backpack, the computer itself, a cassette recorder drive and a 5 inch B&W TV and this was like 1983.

[MCH]

6502 Assembly...

Since you mention the 6502, or the 6510 in the same family that were used in the old Commodore VIC-20 and 64 computers...

Ever program in COMAL? I did a couple small CompSci grad school projects using COMAL way back in the day on my C64 :).