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Post by JohnY on Jun 26, 2023 19:55:04 GMT
He means Perl. Wonderful language. I decided this year that I had better better understand Python, and one of the pluses was claimed to be "easier to learn than Perl" which made me smile. Perl has been my coding language of choice for 20 years or so. I can see why people like Python, it is very high level, but I can't imagine it as a starting language, at least not for anyone who might need C in the future. I needed C in he past. Need as in earning a living. I also needed assembler for various processors.
Yes Fen, I meant Perl. Perl and Python have valid commercial use and are great for teaching children coding. C and its more advanced variants are great at getting to the nitty gritty of coding. C compiles very easily to assembler and raw machine code for many processors.
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Post by Fenris on Jun 27, 2023 8:54:27 GMT
I needed C in he past. Need as in earning a living. I also needed assembler for various processors.
Yes Fen, I meant Perl. Perl and Python have valid commercial use and are great for teaching children coding. C and its more advanced variants are great at getting to the nitty gritty of coding. C compiles very easily to assembler and raw machine code for many processors.
Yep, I used to be a coder as well  Although never any Perl/Python. A bit of Cobol, C, C+, assembly and a few of bits'n'bobs |
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Post by dorsetmike on Jun 27, 2023 11:20:37 GMT
I had a Z80 based "home computer" late 70s, early 80s, used to write in Basic with machine code sub rouitines where speed was needed. The one I remember writing was a disasembler for 8080/8085 and Z80. At the time my day job was teaching traffic control engineers at Plessey who had just introduced a microprocessor based controller
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