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I'm 63 and started coding FORTRAN in High School on a GE teletype. Did just a little coding. Went to college and took a FORTRAN class and a PL1 class. I loved
by epalmer 9y ago
I'm 63 and started coding FORTRAN in High School on a GE teletype. Did just a little coding. Went to college and took a FORTRAN class and a PL1 class. I loved PL1. All my undergraduate coding was with punch cards. IBM 360/50.
Im graduate school for engineering I coded just FORTRAN with punch card images but on a terminal. So that was 1000 times better than physical cards. IBM 3090.
Then Apple II, IBM PC, IBM PC-XT, IBM-AT...
First hard drive for IBM PC was $1000 for 10MB.
- ndesaulniers 9y agoPunch card images?
- epalmer 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card In a character cell terminal editor we would create data files with one line per card image. In essence a punch card for fortran as each line. This is not much different than what we do today. Today we create a line for each line of code (or comments). It was just that punch cards required specific columns for code and other controlling characters. With physical cards you would carry boxes of card around. If the cards got dropped you were hosed unless the cards were numbers. We had columns for numbering the cards. But when writing a program from scratch you could not number the cards till the program ran correctly. Much fun! Edit: added details
- ams6110 9y agoOne of my first programming classes used PL/1. Terminal, not punch cards. I remember liking it OK, but never used it other than that one semester.
- epalmer 9y agoI never used it outside of class. I think it was an IBM proprietary language if memory serves me correct.