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Re: learning languages (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:14:10 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > By the time COBOL was developed, my dad (1)
> > was writing FORTRAN compilers for whatever platform he needed one on. Or,
> > so the legend goes...
> > 1. AHA! The source of my pro-FORTRAN biases! :-P
> Hey cool -- so you're a second-gen too? We'll have to invent a secret
> handshake. ;-)
Heh heh heh. What was your parental-unit (1) coding? My dad was basically
a civvie contractor for the Army for a good chunk of his career, writing
software for calibrating RADAR and RADOT hardware, though he did work at the
Hanford Nuclear Thingy for a while.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. Gender non-specific :-,
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives
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| (...) Oy vey, der camps. I alvays vorget der camps. Und der suits und der schlide-rules and der schtuff. (...) Wasn't COBOL started in 1959? By the time COBOL was developed, my dad (1) was writing FORTRAN compilers for whatever platform he needed (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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