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Programming Language choices: Pascal, LOGO, Forth, Prolog, C (1986) [video]

80 pointsby hazelnut-treeover 1 year ago

9 comments

andromatonover 1 year ago
Jump to 13:05 (also shown on the right menu) for an intro to those languages.<p>The page has a link to &quot;RUN SOFTWARE&quot;. The link opens a &#x27;BBC Micro&#x27; emulator that runs the software shown on the thumbnail.<p>You can edit the program in all its 1980&#x27;s Acorn Basic glory.<p>Btw, &quot;Acorn&quot; is the &quot;A&quot; in &quot;ARM&quot;, as in billions of CPUs today, and the BBC Micro is the inspiration behind the Raspberry Pi.
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richardjam73over 1 year ago
The Nimbus used in the C demonstration seems to be a 16bit 80186 computer. It runs DOS but is not PC compatible.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RM_Nimbus" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RM_Nimbus</a>
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danjoreddover 1 year ago
I used to enjoy LOGO when I was a kid. Used Microworlds EX to make games. Shame it has fallen out of favor as an educational tool. Taught me a lot about scripting and paying attention to syntax.
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SnowProblemover 1 year ago
Ray Kurzweil makes an appearance in Episode 17 talking about AI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clp.bbcrewind.co.uk&#x2F;f3fc8a5ce91dfb847a4f91eed7ddb184" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clp.bbcrewind.co.uk&#x2F;f3fc8a5ce91dfb847a4f91eed7ddb184</a>
coldcodeover 1 year ago
I learned C in 1984 when it still primitive, played with Forth because it was cool, but used Pascal at work. Add to that the APL I briefly played with in graduate school. In those days the choice of languages was almost small enough to try all of them. Today it&#x27;s impossible.
OhMeadhbhover 1 year ago
wait. there was a prolog for the zx spectrum?
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empressplayover 1 year ago
Logo is not an acronym. It&#x27;s an abbreviation of Logos.
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simonblackover 1 year ago
Good ol&#x27; C, still in the &#x27;most used&#x27; group 40 years later. The other four? Not so much today.
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teddyhover 1 year ago
Remarkably honest and unbiased.