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Fril Estelin · Apr 13, 2009, 09:41 PM // 21:41

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Originally Posted by tvalentijn

yThis was all in MS DOS of course, way before Windows came out.

DOS was not (never was, never will, only passionate freelancers would go there in this prehistoric time of Windows development, unless you toyed with IBM DOS?) the OS of choice for programming, most coders were (and still are) Unix-ers. DOS shell is ridiculously simple, try cygwin on windows (or any Linux) to convince yourself of that. Objects were invented some 20 years before Borland was created, in strange (and extinct) programming languages like Simula and most importantly Smaltalk.

For history, I met people (I'm not that old

) who were punching cards to program. They'd come to the main interface of the computer once a day, with a bag literally full of punched cards and input them, waiting for punched cards to come out of the computer, then spend the rest of the day analysing the result to know whether they need to punch again

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MagmaRed · Apr 13, 2009, 09:45 PM // 21:45

We want to speculate on what to speculate on?

Fril Estelin · Apr 13, 2009, 09:48 PM // 21:48

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Originally Posted by MagmaRed

We want to speculate on what to speculate on?

No we're trying to discuss how much we need to discuss to be convinced that we can't speculate. But programming language is way more cool than natural language.

Ratson Itamar · Apr 13, 2009, 10:29 PM // 22:29

@Fril Estelin - I know everything that you've said, except from the history parts :P

I'm going to study Computer Programming at the university next year. All I know now is from advanced computer science at my high school, some extra studying at a collage payed by a computer company (they give back to the community to get rid of some of the taxes lol) and the rest is self learned.

I did how ever have some of my finals in C#, I know more than a lot about classes and polymorphism. According to my teacher, C# is quite similar to C++. C++ has better performance and more flexible but c# is easier to code. C# is a simple, modern, object oriented, and type-safe programming language derived from C and C++, I also know VB (and SQL of course). Basically, what I was lead to believe is that c++ is like c# but more "hands on".

BTW, this thread has gone so off-topic. Is that allowed in this section of the forum?

Apr 13, 2009, 09:45 PM // 21:45	#22
MagmaRed Furnace Stoker Join Date: Mar 2007 Guild: Our Crabs Know True [LOVE] Profession: R/	We want to speculate on what to speculate on?

Apr 13, 2009, 10:29 PM // 22:29	#24
Ratson Itamar Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: "Flame Shield On!"	@Fril Estelin - I know everything that you've said, except from the history parts :P I'm going to study Computer Programming at the university next year. All I know now is from advanced computer science at my high school, some extra studying at a collage payed by a computer company (they give back to the community to get rid of some of the taxes lol) and the rest is self learned. I did how ever have some of my finals in C#, I know more than a lot about classes and polymorphism. According to my teacher, C# is quite similar to C++. C++ has better performance and more flexible but c# is easier to code. C# is a simple, modern, object oriented, and type-safe programming language derived from C and C++, I also know VB (and SQL of course). Basically, what I was lead to believe is that c++ is like c# but more "hands on". BTW, this thread has gone so off-topic. Is that allowed in this section of the forum?