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Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on February 26, 2008, 10:09:57 am ---I usually program RPG-III with my punch cards. :P

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Heh.  In college, I learned Fortran 77 on a DEC Cyber930.

Now, I do programming for control systems.  Migrated from ladder, to some other proprietary language, and now IEC 61131-3 standard code.

Does anyone actually use what they learned in college?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on February 26, 2008, 12:33:35 pm ---Does anyone actually use what they learned in college?

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Very much so.  Not the specific languages that were used at the time, as that was C++, various forms of assembly, and a couple forms of LISP... but the langauges were just the means to the end of teaching software design and general programming skill.  Those classes could have been taught in any number of other languages and been the same.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on February 26, 2008, 12:33:35 pm ---Does anyone actually use what they learned in college?

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Languages, nope ... FORTRAN, COBOL, DTRAN, Pascal, PL/1, APL, J.

Woof -- I am getting old.

ChadTower:

If it helps make you feel less old, I did my first real programming in TI99 Basic.

Of course, I was in third grade.   :laugh2:

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 26, 2008, 02:52:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on February 26, 2008, 12:33:35 pm ---Does anyone actually use what they learned in college?

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Languages, nope ... FORTRAN, COBOL, DTRAN, Pascal, PL/1, APL, J.

Woof -- I am getting old.

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Wow, forgot about Pascal.  I had that for the //c 1988-ish.

Chad:  I'll see your TI and raise you a VIC-20.  Third grade sounds about right.

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