Forth! I was programming in those days myself (though only a little bit on CP/M), and was getting surprised that many people here seemed to think the only alternatives were C or assembly. I learned to program in Basic, then learned some assembly, and finally discovered Forth circa 1984. It was perfectly suited to developing on 8-bit machines -- about as powerful as C, trivial to compile, easy to drop into assembly if you needed to optimize a low-level function.
If I remember correctly, I didn't learn C until 1989, when I was working on 16-bit machines...
People started paying me to develop software in 1986. First time I ever used version control software was 1996. It was TERRIBLE. Two years later I left to start my own software company, but my experience with it to that point was so bad I went without version control the first few years. Around 2002 I started using CVS (or RCS? long time ago!) and quickly switched to Subversion. After learning git to work on Raku circa 2009, I switched my main $WORK repo to git in maybe 2012. Every repo I've created since then has been in git, but I still haven't moved all my svn repos over to git.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember seeing a CAD file that was not working well a few years ago, and it turned out the coordinate system set up for the part was roughly equivalent to building a part the size of a man's fist but measuring it from the center of the Earth (in meters) while putting the part in Earth orbit.
First span of the Blue Water Bridge (Port Huron to Sarnia) built 1938, doing just fine as far as I know. (Drove over it a couple of weekends ago.) Second span was 1997.
fwiw, I have a brother laser printers with chipped cartridges.
It's a 20 second job to remove the chip from the original and insert into the new cartridge. Completely agree it's not something that you should need to do, but at least it's an issue you can work around with a bread knife
Ugh, now I'm torn between wild urges to write a Raku backend for Fusion or port my C++ libraries to Fusion, neither of which is anything like a sensible project in the short term. (Possibly any term.)
That "not changing habits" thing has nothing to do with Ozempic. Based on my experience with the drug (taken six months for type 2 diabetes), you won't lose any weight at all on it UNLESS you change your habits. What the drug does is make it easier for you to change your habits!
> What the drug does is make it easier for you to change your habits!
This is the entire point. The medication exists to change behavior. That’s why this medication exists and the habit changes are possible because of the meds.
It’s like saying that depressed people just need to change their habits. And their anti-depressant meds just make it easier to change habits. But that the meds have nothing to do with habits.
I've been actively using Raku for work for 13 years now. (Okay, we didn't call it Raku yet at the beginning.)
Pros:
- Wonderfully expressive and powerful
- The best glue language I've ever worked with
- Indented heredocs (I think Perl 5 has this now? But Raku's had it for a decade, and it's made a number of my scripts vastly more readable than their Perl 5 equivalents.)
- Great community that responds quickly to questions
Cons:
- Every few years one of the platforms I've got it running on gets far enough behind that the module manager stops working with it, and I've got to install a fresh version on that platform
Most recently, on Saturday I wrote a script to valgrind a batch of files whose name starts with a string you provide, carefully recording any valgrind errors detected. 37 lines of clean code, easy to write, and hugely useful for my current project. Have had it running more or less continually for the last 24 hours...
If I remember correctly, I didn't learn C until 1989, when I was working on 16-bit machines...