Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 04:12 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:58:58 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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As I used to say back in the mainframe days:
 
Everybody uses COBOL because everybody uses COBOL.

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FORTRAN.  COBOL was for brain dead business people who loved to type...

 
 
Then everyone used BASIC for a while.

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Not really. I used FORTH, C, and assembler. I did do one project involving
BASIC but it was an attempt to speed up the BASIC the application people
used by preparsing it to a sort of IL for a runtime but I was working in
Z-80 assembler.
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The only time I did much with BASIC was a follow on to the original
project. An AT used a number of satellite XTs to control the environmental
chambers. My contract was to develop the AT end in C. Someone else did the
XTs in BASIC. I eventually went back for 6 months to clean up and enhance
the XT code.It wasn't bad enough to do a complete rewrite.
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I did do a patch on a legacy BASIC program about 20 years ago after
swearing everyone to secrecy. That was in the same category as when I
fixed the TV of a woman I was interested in and made her swear I didn't
know anything about TVs other than how to plug them in. She wanted to play
Pong and who was I to say no?