In defence of C

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 13 20:11:03 UTC 2005


Alex Beamish wrote:

> Well, I was fooling around with BASIC on a high school teletype machine
> starting in Fall 1973, and it was not at all new by then .. it was a
> pretty standard language that was used on quite a few systems.

My first programming "experience" was Fortran, also in high school, a
couple of years earlier.  We had to use pencil mark cards, which the
teacher took down to the board office, where the computer was located.

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