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You mean something like:
y:=0;
y=0;
y<-0
set 0 as y
Y is in there somewhere.
Oh something else. I start in 1983 in High School with an Apple IIe. From there onto Pascal, C, C++, FORTRAN, Lisp, Java, VB.NET, C#, SQL, JavaScript, Python and the list goes on.
Of all the WHY in CODING:
WHY: FORTRAN code must start on specific column (older one).
WHY: VB.NET required _ for line break.
WHY: Python code blocks by indentation.
WHY: JavaScript "this" is the most confusion of all.
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I took a programming class at Cal Poly when they got their 1st computer (1964-an IBM 1620 w/20K BCD bytes memory), and I got hooked (there was no way I was going to make a living as a Math major). Fortran II and assembly (I still have the instruction set manual-it was small). If you put a handheld radio up next to the console and ran a particular program, it would play 'Flight of the Bumble Bee'. 
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I didn't want to work outside. Long ago. Still don't; unless it's warm.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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At the right age, I got to hear my father on the phone talking to an operator. Changing cards (JCL) in a deck to rerun a job that had thrown a OC7, and that he would be on his way back in. Oh, the mind puzzle.
In high school, 1980, we had an IBM 127 card punch. Our teacher would take our deck to the local community college and bring back the green-bar. We were NOT to: 10 I = 1, 20 PRINT I, 30 I = I + 1, 40 GOTO 10. And yet, someone in the class did. I would love to have seen the operator kill that job.
Why? Puzzles. From both sides - user wants to do what? ok, now how do I get it to do that. And the world keeps turning, the technology changing
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Learned basic back in the 70s by reading books in the library, don't know why it just captured my imagination. Had a notebook filled with hand written programs but didn't get my first computer (zx81) until 3 or 4 years later. I remember as a teenager being really angry at my dad because they were throwing out an old mainframe at the place he worked and he wouldn't let me have it to keep in the garage!
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I learned in 1966 because I wanted to know what those newfangled computer machines were.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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10GB/sec - wowser...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Must be the 'Ax effect' 
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The only downside is that if you have it at home, it's only as wide as the pipe that feeds it. Standard coax-powered cable modems are stuck at 10mb I think, but streaming in-home from a media pc to the home theater pc would be fantastic.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Call me oldfashioned, but I'm already pleased with the speed of the WiFi in my new Dell notebook.
Must admit that we have glassfiber here, and the modem is a FritzBox which is also quite speedy ...
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We have coax coming into our house and I get a 1Gb service (meaning about 800Mb max).
I think it's because it's so damn cold here the cables are essentially superconducting.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Standard coax-powered cable modems are stuck at 10mb I think
My cable modem gives me 250 Mbps.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That's like you driving your mustang crazy fast ... and then slamming the brakes at the red light 100m down the road. Or in my case, our ISPs feed to our building.
Now 5G, on the other hand, gets me excited. 10-20 Gbps. Goodbye landline.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have my tin foil hat.
They've been looking for proof of the danger of cellphone radiation for nearly 40 years (well above the threshold for effects to be apparent) and the latest I heard is it's still all clear. Or they've found weak correlation. Or there's no chance. Or...
I'm far more likely to die in a car accident.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm most likely to die as a result of being a smart-ass at precisely the wrong time.
I'm okay with that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I actually LOL'd at that. That's awesome. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Before you can ignore a problem, you have to first admit to yourself that you have a problem.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 22-Feb-18 13:54pm.
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I've actually left instructions with my wife that when I die, I want her to announce it here. That way, y'all can set up appropriate memorials, arrange celebrations, and maybe even a forum titled, "What Would JSOP Do?".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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<looks nervously="" at="" the="" others="">
Yeah, Absolutely John. We'll get right on that.
<everyone else="" is="" averting="" eyes="">
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I know you're busy, so you can really put it off until after I'm gone.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Are you kidding? Why do you think CP's latency just went up by a factor of 3?
Software Zen: delete this;
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That would go right next to the forum What if Walt actually finished school?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I resemble that remark!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'm most likely to die as a result of being a smart-ass at precisely the wrong time.
And by surviving a massive stroke for 2 days on the floor, I've offered partial proof that that applies to me!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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