1 Sep
2017
1 Sep
'17
10:02 p.m.
I first learned to program in a very primitive form of BASIC on an Elliott 4130. The first 'real' program was to analyse the data from a flight trial and became quite convoluted. Unfortunately the system didn't have a renumber option and could only print the code in the order it was entered rather than numerical order. I found it very difficult to debug and ended up by cutting a printout into individual lines then pasting them on to a blank sheet in the correct sequence. Fortunately soon after it was replaced by a DEC20 with an Algol compiler; I taught myself Algol in awe and wonder at its power and never looked back :-)
John
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