Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

[yale.edu!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!uofs!guinness.cs.uofs.edu!beidler@yal e-bulldog.arpa (Jack Beidler)]

After looking at several responses to the survey, I felt that my gray (white!) 
hair was beginning to show, so

 1) What is your native language (ex. English, French, Spanish, et.al.)

     English, with a distinct Pennsylvania Dutch accent, which surfaces
     every once in a while.

 1b) What computer language did you learn (in order) ?

     FORTRAN (Note no II,..), Burroughs 205 machine code, Fortran IV, PL/360,
     Algol-W, Lisp, Pascal, C (ick), Modula-2, Ada (and smatterings of Smalltal
k,
     Snobol, Scheme, Eiffel, Turing)

 2) What was the first computer language that you wrote programs in?

     If Burroughs 205 machine code doesn't count, then its Fortran IV. The
     weird thing is, I remember the program:  For k = 1, 2, ..., determine
     the values of n when n! contains k*n digits in its base 10 expansion.

 3) What assembly/macro assembly language did you first learn?

     BAL (S/360 assembler)

 4) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
    personal computer if cost is not a problem (you have unlimited dollars
    to use)?

      Rational Ada, of course

 5) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
    personal computer if cost is a problem (you have to buy the cheapest)?

      Meridian Ada

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