On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:36:44 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark > > folder for "Debian Wikis". The first occupant > > is https://mywiki.wooledge.org . > > Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *him* for it. > > > I've been a computer *user* for six of my eight decades. > > My only formal background was a one semester intro to programming > > course as a freshman E.E. student. > > [...] > > Now what programming language was this? >
I would guess most of us in engineering started with some variant of Fortran. Mine was on an ICL1907 mainframe, which I never saw. IBM 80 column card punches... -- Joe
