🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:21:26 GMT, Mike Spencer 
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

> 
> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, "Computer Scientists" these days don't seem to have to
>>> do mundane things like writing code.  And they get snarky if anyone
>>> suggests that there's anything wrong with this--they're working on 
the
>>> Great Advances, code is for the trade schools, according to them.
>>> 
>> 
>> Always was like that. A local community college had great success with 
a
>> program that included COBOL, JCL, and CICS. Graduates usually had jobs
>> waiting when they got out.
> 
> In 1964, when my school had one computer (IBM 1620) they offered a
> course in "computer programming" for which I signed up.  It was taught
> by a guy seconded from industry.  He specified a textbook on numerical
> methods and proposed to teach us that.  Half the class announced that
> they would drop the course if he didn't teach us how write programs.
> 
> Despite his protest that you can't write programs unless you know the
> math, he saw the light and gave us an intro to Fortran.  We each wrote
> one small program related to our disparate majors -- key punch, cards,
> submit to operator, line printer and all that.
> 
> Didn't touch a computer again until 1980 when I borrowed an Apple ][
> and learned Basic.  Then not again for seven years, when I got an
> Osborne I, learned C, z80 assembler.  Now I'm the digital equivalent
> of a chronic alcoholic.  Might never have happened if I'd dropped that
> course in '64.
> 

I'm still coding in 8086 asm! (alright, I need a 286 for popa) see clax 
if interested. If not then erm don't.

-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.