Real Programmers don't use Pascal

[bochane]

Looking through old papers I found a copy I made of an amusing contribution to Datamation July 1983 Readers' Forum:
Real Programmers don't use Pascal
Who knows nowadays of Fortran, Pascal or ADA?
Who were able to dig into the machine code to gain some precious microseconds?
We were, a long long time ago.

 

[ussnorway]

well i do know how to cook so I guess that rules me out

 

[Neemobeer]

I've done some programming in Ada, also used to program in assembly

 

[bochane]

You could gain a lot by optimizing the assembly code.
As I remember well, Ada became standard for MoD, a most remarkable language, with fixed point arithmetic and definable data structures, corners, directions defined in fractions of Pi. We used it on a Ferranti computer. Between old papers I found the Official Definition.
Those were the days. I am getting old....

 

[ussnorway]

getting old is better than the alternative

 

[davehc]

getting old is better than the alternative

Not always, my good friend. At the age of 88, I live in a country, not that of my birth, for family reasons. Every sinlge one if my friends, gained through a life time career of living “overseas”, have long since died. Fortunately, I have a large family , but, bottom line, you can live too long!

 

[bochane]

These unhappy feelings, are becoming more and more part of our lifes, we can't escape, nor change it, worrying won't help neither.
So for now try to forget it, because it can only become worse.

 

[whoosh]

Mentally I feel young but my body will not cooperate with my mind.