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North Central Oregon | Learned basic as a kid and used it through High School and tinkered with Machine Language. In college I had classes in Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Machine, and C. Went to School at Oregon Institute of Technology.
Had a programming instructor that said the best way to learn a language is to make a language do something it was not intended to do. So our term project was to write a fully functional WYSIWYG word processor in FORTRAN...on a Harris Mainframe. Lots of late nights spent in the computer lab on that one. On one project a classmate thought it would be funny instead of turning in their program printed on the printer...they would output the program to the Punch Card printer which the Harris still had attached. We sat in amazement as the Prof held the punch cards to the light and was able to recite the exact text of the program header block and first couple lines of code from the punch cards. This was in 1985/86 or so. The Prof was probably in his 60's. | |
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