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2015-06-17

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simone07:06:59

good morning simple_smile

thomas08:06:13

Good moaning

thomas08:06:24

very international set of greetings simple_smile

simone09:06:56

ah, this feels like London

gjnoonan09:06:44

G’day guvnor

korny09:06:52

… I suspect @agile_geek might beat me on the age stakes anyway. Though I did write my first lines of code in 1979...

agile_geek11:06:15

@korny wrote my first Basic program in 79 too.

otfrom11:06:11

that is probably roughly when I wrote my first BASIC or logo prog

otfrom11:06:32

actually it would have been logo in 80 or 81

mccraigmccraig11:06:45

gawd, i'm a programming stripling... i didn't cut any code until 84 at least

quentin11:06:10

first BASIC program around 1995 😄

acron11:06:37

'97 😮 QBASIC

tcrayford11:06:45

'07 python 😉

tcrayford11:06:34

been using clojure for 6/8 years programming

martintrojer12:06:08

Basic on the C64 late 80’s

benedek12:06:05

basic and then assembly mid 80’s on zx spectrum

benedek12:06:20

(kinda grew bored of elite and chaos 🐍 )

martintrojer12:06:01

quickly moved on to 68k assembly on the amiga 500.

thomas12:06:55

some TRS-80 basic in the '80s... not sure when exaclty

korny12:06:02

I can’t remember if my first coding was Basic on my older sister’s PDP-11 account, or coding at home on my Dad’s hp-41c : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-41C

korny12:06:03

things really took off when I saved up and got a ZX-80 though...

korny12:06:49

My first FP was in 3rd year uni, when I my final project was “an interpreter for a lazily evaluated functional programming language”. At the time I thought this was fun, but wildly impractical and just a toy exercise - sigh - wish I’d kept interest in that area, instead of ignoring it for ages.

simone12:06:06

I can completely relate to that simple_smile

agile_geek12:06:23

@korny Basic on a PDP8 account in school via an acoustic coupler type in on a…wait for it….teletype! (with paper tape reader - which was great for punching out rude words then using sticky tape to make an infinite loop then running out the computer room and leaving it for teachers to find!)

simone12:06:33

for years I thought that functional programming was hard, obscure, and "useless" until I joined a company that actually uses clojure in production, and now I love it

agile_geek12:06:46

I too had a ZX80.. and 81. I wanted the TRS-80!

agile_geek12:06:10

Never did FP at Uni…unfortunately.

simone12:06:42

I think most people outside of the USA haven't?

agile_geek12:06:32

However, my first experience with a computer was loading punch card into an IBM mainframe at Phillips office in Cambridge when my Dad was working on a Saturday (I’m a 2nd generation programmer!) and loading mag tape and a disk pack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_pack

agile_geek12:06:45

That was in 1976!

korny12:06:24

My uni fp experience was in Melbourne :-)

thomas12:06:26

I only did C and some C++ at uni

agile_geek13:06:49

Basic and assembler at ‘O’ level (pre GCSEs), Fortran at ‘A’ level, COBOL and Assembler at Uni.

korny13:06:40

Uni for me was mostly Pascal (the “approved teaching language”) and a bit of C, with a smidgeon of Lisp in the AI subject (we were told “there’s no time to teach you lisp, learn it in your own time”, which meant we basically faked it).

acron13:06:37

@korny I first used Lisp in AI at Uni as well. Blew my mind at the time and didn't pick it up again til much later

martintrojer13:06:09

we did SICP at uni (lucky me)

xlevus14:06:09

Who else got black/brownouted?

korny15:06:27

no power problems in Soho. Where’s that? My London isn’t good enough to spot landmarks yet...

thomas16:06:01

is it Piccadily circus?

thomas16:06:22

nah...don't think so

otfrom17:06:53

no power problems in Fitzrovia