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On 2/25/25 2:33 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> I went from DEC20 FORTRAN to pdp11 Basic (it had matrix math) to DEC SAIL
> (Algol) to Pascal to C to Python

   Sounds familiar ... though 'C' became available on
   the PDP-11s (was writ on them). Still pref Pascal
   over Python where possible.

> Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided

   Better ASM than COBOL  :-)

   ASM can give you kind of a buzz, makes you one
   with the machine.

   Alas if I'd learned more COBOL then I could have
   had a lucrative retirement income supp maintaining
   all those old biz/ops code. Still LOTS of it in
   use and it's too expensive now to replace. If it
   works you hang on to it with a death grip.