Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, at 11:16 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > ... not forgetting Aston Tate Framework 1 and II which were great for > generating demo systems. > > At the time the A.C.T. Sirius I and Victor 9000 PC's came out (Designed > by the famous Chuck Peddle of Amiga fame) there was also a product called > "The Last One" which said it would be the only programming product you > would ever need. Sirius used it to promote the advanced Sirius II which > had variable speed 1.2Mb floppy drives on it.... really high tech but > nobody else could read the disks! > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier > Sent: 05 September 2017 11:10 > To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com > Subject: RE: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > Borland Turbo Pascal V2 was the real turning point for me.... all on a > 360Kb floppy and only about 50 UK Pounds. I wrote a myriad of business > apps with it and started my first self employed business on the back of > it. It was magical to demonstrate the speed, ease of use and flexibility > to all my ex ICL colleagues who were still working on mainframes at the > time. Turbo Pascal, Sidekick to multi task and edit meant you could write > virtually anything. > > I then progressed to Turbo Pascal 3 and FoxBase/Foxplus etc. on DOS and > SCO Xenix as well as other xBase products starting mainly with Dbase II. > III and IV, Nantucket Clipper V4.3 which was super-fast and ultra > reliable. > > CA Visual Objects was the first product to encompass Objects into an > "xBase like" framework but I never got on with it as it was too > regimented and structured for my liking despite buying it along with > RBase 2 and 3, an Ashton Tate product that was a good attempt at > generating multi tier relational database models. > > Oh happy days and I still have all the original software, manuals and > disks!! > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke > Sent: 05 September 2017 09:18 > To: profoxtech@leafe.com > Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > My first real programming outside 8-bit home computers was Pascal on a > VAX II/780 mainframe. 15 minutes to compile when the lab was busy. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 04:56 PM, > mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: > > On 2017-09-01 03:31, Dave Crozier wrote: > > > Brilliant ingenuity! > > > > > > I started on Fortran, Algol 60 and COBOL but only liked Algol and > > > went on to love Pascal obviously. > > > > > > Loved loved loved Pascal way back in the late 80s/early 90s. I think > > somebody said that Delphi is today's Pascal? > > [excessive quoting removed by server]