discuss: Re: Language
Subject:
Re: Language
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
28 Apr 2002 17:02:34 -0000
Message-Id: <20020428170207.MXQD12183.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@there>
Hehe... what time frame was this in?
Get this, the only programming knowledge I have outside of the basics of how
to compile one in Linux are from back in the mid-eighties, when my family
owned a commodore 64 and we found a program that allowed me to enter a
program in assembly language. I used to buy computer magazines with pages
and pages and rows and rows of numbers all separated by commas and enter them
manually. All that for a lousy word processor, but back in the day it was
worth it I guess, just to say you could do it!
Of course, in school there was the ever loving Commodore Pet. Ah yes, I do
remember programming.... line 10, line 20 etc... oh, and I remember a lot of
flow charts.
Gee, you'd think *I* was the one living under a rock as far as programming
goes, not the Turtle (har har)
Happy weekend!
On Sunday 28 April 2002 10:55, David Lloyd wrote:
> YIKES
>
> > In logo (a very simple language to teach CS to k9 with screen
> > interaction) you would see
> > tournegauche 30
> > avance 10
> >
> > (turn the pointer 30° to the left, then trace a 10 pixels line)
>
> We called that programming language "Turtle". It was in English. It was
> the most BORING computer stuff I'd ever done...but then again when the
> rest of my class was waffling Logo to Turtle, I was hacking "Eliza" to
> do more interesting stuff in GW-BASIC...them were the days.
>
> DSL
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Tabatha Persad
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