Why are exams so easy?

[8ace]

Girl's language - real men do NAND and NOR gates

NAND gates - titssssssssssssssss

 

[Gary Leeds]

in my day to day job I am writing for z80 processors and use a combination of C and assembler. So no matter how old the language I bet there is a job sector somewhere that still uses it.

We have just moved onto a new board and that has a z180 a whole 20mhz of speed and 48k of available rom space and 8k of ram space. Its like writing for the spectrum again lol

 

[Grendel]

Assembly and logic gates are far beyond me, on anything more than a very basic level.

I remember I had to write a clock in assembly for my computer science A-Level. I was delighted with it, although I still couldn't really see the point. It was one of those instances where we were taught HOW to do something, without any explanation as to WHY it worked.

 

[KneeOn]

Delphi didn't even exist in the 80s, the first release was mid-90s and it's still updated. That said, I do agree that Pascal and its derivatives are fairly horrible (or, at least, I never got on with them).

There was a fairly interesting opinion piece on The Reg a couple of days ago about Computer Science graduate jobs, HERE, which is worth a read.

Pascal rather.

 

[clapham_gull]

Pascal rather.

So would you discount C# or Java on the basis that (at your level) it's almost identical to C++ and that's been around since the 80s ?

 

[WATFORD zero]

I am so old that when I started gate design and assembler were the basics. Some interesting stuff on here about old languages. It still surprises a people just how much old code in old languages is running behind the nice new frontage of many large organisations.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I remember my first day at work ('83), and being introduced to punched cards. Fortunately, I never saw them again. Give me C++/C# any day.

 

[Grendel]

It still surprises a people just how much old code in old languages is running behind the nice new frontage of many large organisations.

When I worked for BT (up until recently) I was amazed to find software that was running on Himalaya series Tandems. All fine and well until something went wrong with one of them!

 

[gullshark]

FWIW I am in the mobile entertainment / games industry - although I've mainly developed on existing engines (UNITY: Game Development Tool )

 

[KneeOn]

So would you discount C# or Java on the basis that (at your level) it's almost identical to C++ and that's been around since the 80s ?

C++ (in my inexperienced knowledge) is more powerful than Pascal and Delphi...

 

[e77]

C++ (in my inexperienced knowledge) is more powerful than Pascal and Delphi...

C is great but not very good to learn on as it doesn't have many controls. I seem to recall (I haven't coded in it for 15 odd years) you could add letters together and it would return the sums of their ASCII codes!

Pascal tends to be used as a learning language as it is quite structured. However ADA makes it look like the software development of free form jazz.

Then again when I went to college the Internet had a user base of about 4.5 people.