[AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch

John,

I did program on both Pascal and C first on PDP-11 (Soviet clone) then on
Turbo C and Turbo Pascal on IBM PC XT(Chinese clone :)) . Liked them both -
C and Pascal I mean - and Boralnd IDE was the best that times...

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what better language to inflict pain and suffering than 'C'?.
>>>
VBA and VB6! (when attempting to use them in the areas they are not designed
to be used in...)

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch


> >I just took C++ for a spin; man is it ugly.
>
> ROTFL.  You think it is ugly now, you should have seen it in the late 80s.
> I really started programming in earnest in Borland's Turbo Pascal in the
> early 80s.  By the late 80s Borland had a 'C' compiler.  Whereas Pascal is
a
> tightly typed language, the 'C' versions of the day made no effort to do
> type checking for parameters and such.  It was "intentional" (or so they
> said) since "REAL programmers" didn't need the compiler forcing them to do
> silly things like making sure that the variable type passed in was the
> variable type expected.  So you could pass in a float to an int and the
> compiler would just do a type conversion for you, no warning, no nothing.
>
> >I hate having to work that hard to write a program.
>
> Uhhhh... Yep!
>
> Of course you aren't a "REAL programmer" if you don't LOVE pain and
> suffering, and what better language to inflict pain and suffering than
'C'?.
> I'll bet you don't like pizza and mountain dew at 3 am while coding like a
> mad man either!
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
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