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Did that inspire you to write Zortech C++? Still have fond memories of that.
by zwieback 10y ago
Did that inspire you to write Zortech C++? Still have fond memories of that.
- WalterBright 10y agoI was more interested in rockets at the time :-) Computers didn't exist for me outside of scifi. My high school acquired a Business Basic 4 computer my senior year. The math teacher decided to teach a BASIC programming class, where we'd use a punch card machine to write our programs, give the card decks to him, and he'd run them. He wouldn't let any of us touch the computer, or even be in the same room with it. My most advanced program was a quadratic equation solver, just a few lines of BASIC. (The class was more or less a joke.) But when I got to Caltech a year later, they gave all students an account on a DECSystem 10 timesharing system, and everything went downhill for me after that. I'd go to class in the day, and spent all night in the computer center playing with it.