Jeff Atwood on Recent History
If you don't have Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog on your radar, it's a good one for daily reading. Today, Jeff ponders some aspects of software programming history, recent and otherwise (though I guess it's all recent, relatively speaking...).
Dan
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Thanks, Jeff...I think :-)
"Fortran is as old as...omigod...my PARENTS!"
That's OLD.
I was born in 1949, so I was digging on cookies and milk when John Backus and his team were holed up in a hotel in Manhattan, developing FORTRAN.
In 1972 after Nixon invaded Cambodia (when will they ever learn) I debugged Fortran.
In fourth grade, in 1959, I read a book about kids who'd used their Dad's computer at the university to do their long division homework.
I told my teacher, Miss Shonske, about the book. She said, "Eddie Nilges, you shouldn't waste your time with such foolish books! You should do your homework!"
[The "underground" cartoonist Robert Crumb and his wife have a daughter: in order to protect their daughter against the return of this type of crazed teacher especially to rural California where the Crumbs lived, the Crumbs moved to France.]