Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 08/09/2024 20:13, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

 Well, I had 48KB ZX Spectrum.  On it I could run Hisoft Pascal,
Hisoft C, FIG-Forth and other things.  At that time I had some
knowledge of C but really did not understand it.  Hisoft C gave
me similar speed to Hisoft Pascal, had less features (C lacked
floating point) and needed more memory.  FIG-Forth needed very
little memory but execution speed was significantly worse than
Pascal.  And my programs were small.  Some my programs needed
enough momory for data, but one could write a compiled progam
to the tape and run it from the tape.  So I mostly used Pascal.
But that could be different with less memory (compiler would
not run on 16kB Spectrum, FIG-Forth would be happy on it) or
with bigger programs.
 

That's bringing back memories - I too had these languages for my Spectrum.  IIRC FIG-Forth had an editor that had almost illegible half-width characters to get more characters per line.
But if you think Forth was slow on the Spectrum, you probably never tried Snail Logo :-)
While I tried these languages a bit on the Spectrum, I did more BASIC and assembly programming.  The BBC Micro had a much better BASIC and an integrated assembler, so I used that when I could.