Comment on It was all fields round here by Saori

Saori — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:04:03 +0000

I was born in 1954. My college caerer, in the US, went a little like yours. My first language was FORTRAN. I was VERY good at FORTRAN. My first academic language (in 1973) was also Algol. We were tasked with writing an Algol compiler IN ALGOL. It was daunting, and I’m not sure I even finished it.I enjoyed programming so much, I became the guy who sat at the “insultant”s desk and told you why your FORTRAN program wasn’t working.Then came assembly (PDP-8) and then the world of IBM (COBOL and Assembler.) I was very good at COBOL, and passable at assembler.After several years of COBOL programming, I left programming and became a manager, then a non-IT manager. Now, I’m back in it as a consultant. Things have certainly changed. I don’t know what Python is, but I look forward to learning more. It’s that or die!Jim

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