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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M Best Comment
I start of with hard coding in binary on punch card in the mid 70's in highschool

In the military I took side college coarses in RPG I back in late 70's

After the military in the early 80's I went on to RPG II.

In the mid 80's I went on to three forms of basic, 6502 assembly on the Merlin assembler on an Apple IIe. Different college.

Then switch to the HP3000 with Image Database, 9845B Forms Utility integrated together with C.O.B.O.L., and a really SOB of a time doing it.

While messing with the above, I took coarses on the Apple IIe in dbase I and turbo pascal I.

After graduation I took a very short job doing medical billing software in C.O.B.O.L II can't remember which mini main frame.

After loosing that job, I built my first computer an AT clone and learn Turbo Pascal III, Borland pascal, Turbo assembly and Pascal for windows. Also expanded my knowledge of database programming with Ms Access I. And Ashton dbase IV.

After my dad died in 1990 I attended Comdex and got interested in video programming using mostly 80386 assembly on a newly bought 80486 clone.

That was short lived. In the mid 90's I took another job building and repairing computers while volunteering as a assistance system analyst on a rented free BSD system. Also built a 586 computer (cyrix chip) for my own use.

There I learned HTML, SSI, Java scripting, perl, php and SQL while learning to operate and monitor all the servers, ftp, SMPT and Apache web server.

When mom died in 2001 I lost it. And pretty much dropped programming! Exception with excel spreadsheets.

I do keep my eye on things programming wise yet I have been pretty much inactive since 2001.
@DeWayfarer Yes , I heard of RPG in the 80s.
The only RPGs I knew of were the dangerous military kind !!
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters 🤣!!!

Report program generator! A laughable language, if you can call it that.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@DeWayfarer Thank you for the BA.

SW-User
I started out with COBOL, BASIC, then PASCAL, C, C++, Assembly language, Visual Basic, some SQL. Had a few small jobs when i finished Uni and Y2K was like $$$ for programmers. But since then i have only worked in hardware. It was a good background though.
I do the one where I sprinkle corn on the keyboard and let the chicken peck away at it!
SW-User
@EugenieLaBorgia Lmao 😂
SW-User
I did a little Basic at school but that had to be sent off. It was frustrating sending off code sheets get errors back resend sheets to be typed in again.

Then at college Z80 assembler and Pascal. First job was Coral66, Fortran 4 and Z8000 assembler. Then 68000 assembler, Pascal again and Jovial J73, Fortran 77.

Through other jobs, C, Spitbol, Bliss and 8086 assembler. Then into PL/1, Jcl, Dcl, Model 204 etc

Ended up with some Perl and a lot of Sql before I stopped coding.
Pascal was the language I learned programming with.
At work I have programmed in COBOL and Fortran , with the Ingres interfere language OSQ.
The VMS system language DCL.
For many years now my main writing is is SQL for database programming.
ShaythePanTransMan · 22-25, T
I’ve used Java and mostly JavaScript. I’m going to (re)learn some Python pretty soon. I’ve also done classes in C++, C#, and SQL but I don’t remember those at all.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
C++, Python, lua, bit of SQL, bit of Java. HTML and CSS if you count markup languages too.
@UndeadPrivateer Monty Python ?!! 😆
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters Might as well be, it's hilariously simple.
Lanyx · 46-50, M
Assembler, C, Delphi, PHP/JavaSript, Ruby. I used to write in Java too. My biggest problem is that I don't know any frameworks.
SW-User
C, C++, C#, and java. Not that I even needed the skill or actually got joy from it, I was just taught them in school for a grade.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
mostly g-code, some C++, java, and lua
Chevy454 · 46-50, M
Power button

 
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