[Gambas-user] Programming, age

Fri Jun 24 08:35:47 CEST 2011

It's true, many projects of the last two decades wouldn't have existed 
without the wonderful idea of OpenSource.

My first contact with the computer world was a ZX 81 for which I had 
saved my pocket money for half a year or so. I must have been about 15, 
16 at that time. During this period, its price continued to fall and 
eventually we meat at some point (don't remember exactly, was it 285 or 
so Deutsch-Marks, about 150 Euros?). What a happy day! One kB of RAM! 8 
Bit engine! I grabbed the old B/W TV from my parents and took everything 
with me into our... well, don't know the word for it in English... 
"stuga" in Swedish... anyway, for the summer holidays.

Later I had an Amiga 2000, almost usable machine already :-)

And when I joined my parents in our private language school, I persuaded 
my father to invest into four Commodore XT computers to make up a 
computer course for the students ("what on earth is that good for?"). 
Guess it was about 1985.

But I've stuck to BASIC for all that time, it was the language which 
fits my needs best, and so is Gambas. Mainly I code things for our 
school, and Gambas has turned out to be the most comprehensive and 
reliable tool I ever had.

Rolf

Am 23.06.2011 22:42, schrieb Dag-Jarle Johansen:
> Peter Landgren
>
> es klingt so deustch., Ich liebe deutsch, allthough an Scandinavian. German
> ist the most exact language on the world until now. Usuable words for common
> people 3.500, In constrast Britsh with less than 1.500 words, not to speak
> from American, they just know "fuck". The South-american languages - there
> are more, because it*s a different between Mexican spansish, Espanol (Spain)
> and a lot of the spanisch dialects in feks. Peru, Columbia and so on.
>
> I*m a lector of translations, nicht weil ich die Ausbildung habe, aber weil
> ich in Hørsaaal A Mahe 1 høren musste, Geologie 1+2 machte und Vermessung
> 1+2 machte, in physich 1 bekam - so I think my tranlations are pretty goood.
> Juridical German has been more easy. And last but not leats: Look at FB
> Phrases: all my tranlations - 10000
>
>
> Peter, ich glaube wie waren alle nicht faul
> Regards, Dag
>
> 2011/6/23 Peter Landgren<peter.talken at ...1879...>
>
>> My first program was written in 1964 in the language Algol Genius for
>> computing filter coefficients. It
>> was run om vacuum tube system, at least 20 m long. It had paper tape reader
>> as input device. There
>> were also magnetic tapes and a drum memory and a line printer.
>>
>> Now, being retired, I'm still confused sometimes and trying to learn.
>>
>> /Peter
>>
>>
>>> I get my first job as software developer in 1986. In a big machine with
>>> it's own OS (Fujitsu's UNIOS F4). After that, came a flood of acronyms
>> and
>>> languages.
>>> Today, still exceede, still confusing, allways learning...
>>>
>>> Good Luck.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/6/23 Dag-Jarle Johansen<dag.jarle.johansen at ...626...>
>>>
>>>> Hi to all great programmers.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if there is an limit of understanding, an age limit. I can use
>>>> G3 and get my results. I still use PHP, JS, FB Dev(JS) CSS and so on,
>>>> and still
>>>> am confused, I do not even understand the questions the most G3 users
>>>> have. I wrote my first code in 1980, so I might be a dino among you. No
>>>> DOS, no Windows, at that time, in 85 I got a job as softwaredeveloper
>> in
>>>> Austria (where I studied buildingeengnier) - on a system called System
>>>> V, which may sound familiar to some of you. Language C, Bash and so on.
>>>> I was allowed to do some classifed work for NATO, on a WANG 128. Good
>>>> grief, the cold war is over, the next has started. I just want to know
>> -
>>>> what are you doing? Many regards,
>>>> Dag
>>>>
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