There are many times when I'm busted for not knowing this language or that one as Americans are stupid and only know English. I'm not even American, I'm just a mutt who happens to be here.
Usually people don't compare notes on computer languages. Apparently they don't count.
Well, I count quite a few of them.
BASIC -- One of IBM's biggest mistakes was to fail to adequately push forward the BASIC environment
VSBASIC
FORTRAN
WATFOR
COBOL
WATBOL
PL/1
PLC
Motorola 6502 Assembler
IBM 360/370 Assembler
Assembler-H (et al)
C
(more I've forgotten)
Marginal:
DCL (DEC) - I hated it more than most and didn't use it long
Add in scripting languages if you like:
perl
miscellaneous others
and, sure: LSL (scripting language for SL - hideous but, after perl, you won't mind)
Fully-conversant in all for reading and writing. Most of them lost my interest over time as the only language with the power for what I was doing was assembler. Hipsters called it assembly language but they were barely-tolerated even then.
Writing 6502 code was the fastest I ever saw on any platform and it was the tiniest C64 computer. The assembler only knew three opcodes (i.e. accumulator and two index registers) but the code I wrote was running in-between screen refreshes (i.e. every 1/60th of a second) and you've never seen speed like this. With big machines, dispatching cycles mean you never get all of the machine's power and the overhead of a mainframe z/OS is enormous. However, on that C64 you share nothing and you get every cycle it can create.
I'm such a damn illiterate, I can hardly hold my head up.
So, why don't you know any computer languages?
(Ed: because it's a hassle, analysts are slower than chessmasters but without a fraction of the reliability, DP management has no more imagination than the average earthworm, passive acceptance of management's provincial conservatism may turn you into a serial killer)
Right you are, matey. Don't do it.
Usually people don't compare notes on computer languages. Apparently they don't count.
Well, I count quite a few of them.
BASIC -- One of IBM's biggest mistakes was to fail to adequately push forward the BASIC environment
VSBASIC
FORTRAN
WATFOR
COBOL
WATBOL
PL/1
PLC
Motorola 6502 Assembler
IBM 360/370 Assembler
Assembler-H (et al)
C
(more I've forgotten)
Marginal:
DCL (DEC) - I hated it more than most and didn't use it long
Add in scripting languages if you like:
perl
miscellaneous others
and, sure: LSL (scripting language for SL - hideous but, after perl, you won't mind)
Fully-conversant in all for reading and writing. Most of them lost my interest over time as the only language with the power for what I was doing was assembler. Hipsters called it assembly language but they were barely-tolerated even then.
Writing 6502 code was the fastest I ever saw on any platform and it was the tiniest C64 computer. The assembler only knew three opcodes (i.e. accumulator and two index registers) but the code I wrote was running in-between screen refreshes (i.e. every 1/60th of a second) and you've never seen speed like this. With big machines, dispatching cycles mean you never get all of the machine's power and the overhead of a mainframe z/OS is enormous. However, on that C64 you share nothing and you get every cycle it can create.
I'm such a damn illiterate, I can hardly hold my head up.
So, why don't you know any computer languages?
(Ed: because it's a hassle, analysts are slower than chessmasters but without a fraction of the reliability, DP management has no more imagination than the average earthworm, passive acceptance of management's provincial conservatism may turn you into a serial killer)
Right you are, matey. Don't do it.
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