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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:43:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-02-26, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/25/25 2:33 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I went from DEC20 FORTRAN to pdp11 Basic (it had matrix math) to DEC
>>>> SAIL (Algol) to Pascal to C to Python
>>> 
>>>   Sounds familiar ... though 'C' became available on the PDP-11s (was
>>>   writ on them). Still pref Pascal over Python where possible.
>>> 
>>>> Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided
>>> 
>>>   Better ASM than COBOL
>>
>> Depends on what you want to do. Assembler is a lot more fun,
>> but I wouldn’t want to write a payroll system in it.
> 
> Wrote 'em, maintained 'em.  They're hell in any language.

Never did payroll but I did do an inventory control system. The IBM 5120 
gave you two choices: BASIC and APL. Or rather no choice. BRAD II was sort 
of a brain dead RPG.