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| | the great journey (was Re: programming) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | These were military computers, not commercial machines, and I had to design increasingly complex operating systems as I moved from one kind of machine to another. |
 | | Finally, after several years of programming with crude assembly language, I got to play with my first modern, machine-independent language, NELIAC, a variation on ALGOL. |
 | | Now, of course, I use Linux and am about to upgrade from RH 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 where I am playing with TCL/TK, perl, Python and Java. |
| www.kernel-panic.org /pipermail/kplug-list/1999-July/003056.html (258 words) |
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