Re: OT: Programming Languages

On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 18:04:21 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Cursitor
Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in <vg3575$3bio0$1@dont-email.me>:

You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep the
rest; I'll stick with that.

Agree, I use C only and asm when needed.
I started with binary interfacing hardware...
Nothing of all of that was hard.

BASIC was fun too, but very limiting, slow interpreted language.
but fun for simple math...
No floating point shit when doing asm .
most human relevant things can be done in 32 bit integer.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80
It ran BASIC, a good BASIC.
Then I converted it to a CP/M machine, running the C80 C compiler.
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/index.html
Added all sortd of I/O:
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html

At work I was using the first IBM PCs..
designing ISA cards with all sort of things on it, like vector stuff,
process control, what not.
My CP/M running Z81 (by then) was faster than the IBM due to the RAMDISK I build.

Still using C now at home and Micochip PIC asm...
No bloat today