Archive for April 2007

My history in computing

I learned to program in the 1970s. My first languages were FORTRAN, BASIC, Lisp, and GMAP (Honeywell assembler). I later learned RATFOR, B, C, and Pascal. I have been programming professionally since 1984. In the beginning I was programming in B on a Honeywell GCOS mainframe, writing small applications. Between 1987 and 1996 I worked [...]