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Originally Posted by MistressStevie
Having written programs on punch card in Fortran and waiting overnight for results, I love this thread. It is almost as good as Divas and One Pieces Swim Suits.
I have been trying to find my old copy of JCL (job control language) to show my son how far we have come.
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Glad you enjoy this thread. I think many of us share common experiences with technology.
Have heard of “JCL” but never used it. I knew what it meant. I hope you will post more about it.
My very first experience with programming was “Basic” for the Commodore Vic-20 and then on the IBM PC. In school I wrote a program with one of my teachers in C++ (see above posts). Due to Purdue’s Engineering emphasis, the “earliest” language I’ve ever used was Fortran. I of course know about punched cards but never programmed that way. Have heard many horror stories from others at Purdue.
Along the way, I learned Turbo Pascal, COBOL, Assembly Language, HTML, Java, and many “scripting” languages. Also SQL for working with data. Took an online course in Python a couple years ago just for fun. We require it in our Business analytics major. Thought I should know something about it.
Here’s a link to “Fortran 2021”
It will never die!
https://www.absoft.com/?gclid=EAIaIQ...SAAEgLoTvD_BwE