Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

[James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>]

Marc Paré wrote:
> OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year at 
> my university where "punch cards" were still being used, and I used to 
> chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on monitors, way 
> back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in 1980 so that I could be with the 
> up-and-coming in-crowd on campus ... only to find out that they all 
> switched that year to COBOL, DOH!

My first exposure was Fortran, in Gr. 12, where we used pencil mark 
cards.  I then later had courses on BASIC, Pascal, Fortran and C.  I 
also learned a bit of BASIC on my own and assembly language on the 8080, 
6502, 6809 & 8088 microprocessors and Data General Nova & Eclipse 
mini-computers.

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