[Coco] Back to school

[John Donaldson]

  Don't forget FORTRAN 77 which there was a package for OS9 adn would 
run on the COCO3.

John Donaldson



Boisy Pitre wrote:

> That's great Jim.  You will find that taking the fun part in taking  
> these courses is not only learning something new, but relating it  
> back in someway to your CoCo.
>
> One of the courses I am taking this semester is Programming  
> Languages, where we investigate the ways and methods in which  
> computer programming languages are constructed, designed and  
> represented.  Listening to the lecture and reading the book have  
> given me an appreciation for how languages like Basic09 were created,  
> the historical context in which they were born, and the design  
> decisions that, at the time, were based on language conventions of  
> the day.
>
> Along with the lecture, which is full of theory, there are  
> assignments which are keeping us busy, and introducing us to knew  
> languages at the same time.  The semester project has us writing an  
> interpreter for the Algol 60 language... in SNOBOL.  We just received  
> our in-semester assignment... writing a Hindley-Milner type  
> inferencing algorithm in a language called ML (that's ML for Meta- 
> Language).
>
> For me, all of this just sparks my imagination on what cool languages  
> we could use to create programs for our CoCos.  Of course, we have  
> Basic09 which is a pretty darned good language in its on right.   
> There is Pascal which is also a good language, and of course, C.  But  
> there are so many other languages that could be investigated, some  
> interpretive, some compiled.  Even the idea of creating a new  
> programming language designed for the specific features and memory  
> footprint of the CoCo is an interesting idea.
>
> Get everything that you can out of the class, and as an aside, think  
> of creative ways in which you can apply this knowledge to the CoCo.
>
> Boisy
>
> On Oct 1, 2005, at 1:07 AM, Clifford Redding wrote:
>
>> Let me be the first to say "good luck"! I for one just can't get my  
>> head around "C" even though I have tried it in the past. Maybe I'll  
>> try again with it sometime soon! Yup. Sure, Maybe i'll just stick  
>> with Basic09.
>>
>>
>> Clifford
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cox" <jimcox at miba51.com>
>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:20 PM
>> Subject: [Coco] Back to school
>>
>>
>>
>>> I sent an email to some people privately, but I thought I'd share  
>>> this with the list too.  Last Wednesday was my first day of C  
>>> Programming class.  I'm coming into this with about a year of OJT  
>>> experience of C programming and I am looking forward to build a  
>>> nice foundation in the language.  After a 23 year detour, I feel I  
>>> am finally back on track.
>>>
>>> I want to say thanks to the many of you who have helped me in the  
>>> past, not just with CoCo stuff, but with many other things.  While  
>>> I haven't done a lot with the CoCo lately, I do feel that my  
>>> involvment with this list and with many of my CoCo friends has  kept 
>>> me going to the point to where I am now.
>>>
>>> Thanks all.
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
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