Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install? Date: 13 Jul 2024 19:05:43 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <668b224a@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net FTbhGkqJHxp/rfQmqNAGSQ+apDFBGEWmekDPt9Z2DX9E7xDgIm Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nt5rwk8VTW1OvWs64KWn8SXCOJQ= sha256:krJnDXfJdwq4wlwcmVU39zGrMPM674zdXWcLGWRgKMM= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:56925 On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: > rbowman wrote at 04:12 this Thursday (GMT): >> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:58:58 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >>> As I used to say back in the mainframe days: >>> >>> Everybody uses COBOL because everybody uses COBOL. >> >> FORTRAN. COBOL was for brain dead business people who loved to type... > > > Then everyone used BASIC for a while. Not really. I used FORTH, C, and assembler. I did do one project involving BASIC but it was an attempt to speed up the BASIC the application people used by preparsing it to a sort of IL for a runtime but I was working in Z-80 assembler. The only time I did much with BASIC was a follow on to the original project. An AT used a number of satellite XTs to control the environmental chambers. My contract was to develop the AT end in C. Someone else did the XTs in BASIC. I eventually went back for 6 months to clean up and enhance the XT code.It wasn't bad enough to do a complete rewrite. I did do a patch on a legacy BASIC program about 20 years ago after swearing everyone to secrecy. That was in the same category as when I fixed the TV of a woman I was interested in and made her swear I didn't know anything about TVs other than how to plug them in. She wanted to play Pong and who was I to say no?