Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:14:20 -0600 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <8j29lg5kteuqhn9o9ophsgfp7afi7o2894@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Wy1VqPnw2FX6B4uDUeS69wDRYxYZ2+Cw5LOJfYtwsSSAZgWkfe Cancel-Lock: sha1:MMZ9bloF5mfxcysg0hHcJsXGBPc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: <8j29lg5kteuqhn9o9ophsgfp7afi7o2894@4ax.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4495 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594856 sci.physics:833297 On 09/29/2021 09:57 AM, chrisv wrote: > rbowman wrote: > >> chrisv wrote: >>> >>> My college programming classes used Pascal. EE curriculum. >> >> I loved Pascal. The University of Maine used it for a didactic language >> and many of the new engineering hires used it. I made some bucks writing >> dll's so Pascal could talk to real world instrumentation, robotic arms, >> and so forth. >> >> The original, pure design by Wirth was characterized as 'a computer >> language only good for telling itself secrets' . > > I can't say that I've met a programming language that I didn't like. > I probably should have gotten a job programming, because I've always > enjoyed doing it. > > Programming with Pascal was certainly a good learning experience. I'd > done a lot of programming previously (even for a living), mostly in > BASIC. But I really learned how to program "correctly" (well > structured, etc) in college with Pascal. > Scheme came close for me. When one of our programmers died we bought his books to help out his widow and I got the Wizard book and a couple of others. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html I worked my way through it one winter. Scheme was conceptually interesting but in the back of my mind I was always asking myself why the hell anybody would do it that way. FORTH was fun and netted me a job. With a very small kernel in assembler it can compile itself. https://www.amazon.com/Threaded-Interpretive-Languages-Design-Implementation/dp/007038360X If you ever stumble over that in a used book store it's worth a couple of bucks. It's not FORTH specific, I did pass on one FORTH job offer. The pay was excellent but it was in Riyadh...