Explain your username.

PelliX said:
Oh really? What were you doing, what languages? :-)
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I started with a TOPS course in COBOL and moved to databasic on Pick systems (Yes I am old). Did lots of time series analysis stuff for govt, tradefloor, mainly spreadsheets pulling data from servers.
Then mainly SQL scripting for database migrations.
Was keen on C++ for a bit, but that was years ago and my poor old brain says no now.
 
Believe it or not, I did actually once have to deal with COBOL, and a fair amount of it, too. It was related to age-old PBX arrangement and handling amongst other things the CDR, accounting and so on. So I've never really written much COBOL, but I've done a bit of hacking at it and reverse engineering. Eventually, after a while I was given permission to revamp the stack, implement Asterisk and move things into the 21st century.
 
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Wow you guys are old! I remember trying to write a program back in the punch card era writing out code on a 14" wide [or so] pad. The guy 'teaching' me was one of those brilliant 'just do it like this' then walk off guys and my ADHD didn't do code well.

My name came from my 12 year old son when he asked what I did as a kid without the internet. I replied - before cell phones, cable TV, color TV and direct dial - not party line - phones? We had mastered fire. He said you're such a geezer! Geezer was taken on the first forum I joined so Geese it was.

Russ
 
Geeze said:
Wow you guys are old! I remember trying to write a program back in the punch card era writing out code on a 14" wide [or so] pad. The guy 'teaching' me was one of those brilliant 'just do it like this' then walk off guys and my ADHD didn't do code well.

My name came from my 12 year old son when he asked what I did as a kid without the internet. I replied - before cell phones, cable TV, color TV and direct dial - not party line - phones? We had mastered fire. He said you're such a geezer! Geezer was taken on the first forum I joined so Geese it was.

Russ
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I wrote my first FORTRAN back in 1973 using marked cards. This was in high school. In college we moved to punched cards. In my first real job I was writing in assembly and C using a terminal ! That was like Star Trek sh#t back then.

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Don O said:
I wrote my first FORTRAN back in 1973 using marked cards. This was in high school. In college we moved to punched cards. In my first real job I was writing in assembly and C using a terminal ! That was like Star Trek sh#t back then.

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I took a few coding classes when I was taking some college course as an adult.... married with kids. My first course was in GW-Basic. Then I got to graduate to Pascal. We were using Borlands Turbo Pascal. It was fun. I learned some stuff. Just never went anywhere with it.
 
I guess I started writing batch scripts for DOS (yeah, I'm not *that* old) when I was a kid, then progressed to Visual Basic but didn't do a whole lot. As a teenager I got into bash and Perl, PHP, then C#/.Net. Picked up and did a lot of Python along the way, obviously the obligatory markup languages and whatnot too. Worked as a VB.Net dev for a short while which was interesting, knowing the runtime but being used to the C# syntax. Obviously sooner or later on Linux you need a bit of C and C++ knowledge, though I'm no serious coder in the former. I've had to dive into stuff like COBOL, good old assembly, Ruby, Java and more along the way. Ended up writing a fair deal of C++ mainly for embedded platforms and reverse engineering GNU software to compile on Solaris. I've been interested in having a bash at Go [pun intended] but I haven't really had a good use case yet. The last semi-serious piece of code I wrote was a custom application for capturing screenshots from my old Tektronix and HP scopes using GPIB and PCL.
 
PelliX said:
I guess I started writing batch scripts for DOS (yeah, I'm not *that* old) when I was a kid,
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Oh yeah. Me too. Wrote Batch Files for our first PC with an 8086 processor and a "C" Prompt. And yes. I am that old. :pound-hand:
 
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