Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

From	BartC <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications
Date	2016-02-22 16:21 +0000
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On 22/02/2016 10:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:52 am, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>
>> BartC writes:
>
>>> IIRC, the first programming exercise I ever did (in 1976 using Algol
>>> 60) involved reading 3 numbers from the teletype and working out if
>>> those could form sides of a triangle.
>>
>> That was a lousy user interface even then - an inflexible user
>> interaction without even a possibility of handling errors interactively?
>> Command line arguments would have been better (if available, that is).
>
> Jussi, I think you have an inflated expectation of what was available in
> 1976. Command line? What's that? Programs ran in batch mode,
> and 'interactive' meant that you could easily slip out one punched card,
> replace it with a different one, and run the program again.

Our system must have been more advanced then, or designed for training. 
We used a time-sharing 'dec-system 10' and it was usually accessed via 
interactive terminals, either teletypes or the odd VDU.

It still supported punched cards but that was more because they were 
still being used in the real world.

-- 
Bartc

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Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-17 11:49 -0800
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  Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com - 2016-02-17 14:18 -0700
  Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2016-02-17 16:27 -0500
    Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-18 00:17 -0800
      Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 10:09 +0000
      Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 21:16 +1100
        Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-18 03:11 -0800
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              Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 03:06 +1100
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Dietmar Schwertberger <maillist@schwertberger.de> - 2016-02-18 21:37 +0100
              RE: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Dan Strohl <D.Strohl@F5.com> - 2016-02-18 16:24 +0000
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            Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-19 11:30 +1100
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              Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-19 02:14 +0000
                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-19 21:18 +1100
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              Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 15:47 +0000
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-18 09:38 -0800
              RE: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Dan Strohl <D.Strohl@F5.com> - 2016-02-18 16:00 +0000
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-20 18:54 +1100
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications wrong.address.1@gmail.com - 2016-02-19 10:14 -0800
                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-19 23:06 +0000
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-02-21 17:08 +0200
                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-21 16:16 +0000
                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-02-21 23:52 +0200
                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-21 23:05 +0000
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-22 12:24 +0000
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                Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-22 21:46 +1100
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      Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-19 12:06 +1100
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