Human Brain EnthusiastModern programming languages should have logos like this
squinky@thomasfuchs I think Rust has some hentai or something if that counts
Ben Foote@thomasfuchs Borland Turbo Pascal is the first programming language I ever learned. Am I old? Yes, yes I am.
Monospace Mentor@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs I learned it on CP/M. Do I win oldness?
@monospace @thomasfuchs Yes, you win. I think the computers we used were 486-66DX's.
Marco van Burgsteden 🍋@benpocalypse @monospace @thomasfuchs
Hah! I started on a 286.
Max@Marrekoo @benpocalypse @monospace @thomasfuchs I ran a Pascal (I think it was turbo) on my 8088 XT.
Ray@Marrekoo @benpocalypse @monospace @thomasfuchs
I started on an 1802 but transitioned to 8080 at my first real computer job at Carterfone.
@callmeray @Marrekoo @monospace @thomasfuchs Glad to be among the greybeards. Computing has come a long way since I started. The Intel assembler manual is well north of 1000 pages at this point. I remember reading the ASM manual for my C64 and it was like 20 pages long.
@benpocalypse @Marrekoo @monospace @thomasfuchs
I really enjoyed the simple beauty of the CPU hardware back then. You could single step through a program and actually see the relationship between the registers and the state of the data, address and control pins on the chip. That simplicity is long gone.
Gabriel N@Marrekoo @benpocalypse @monospace @thomasfuchs “Mom! Someone left the keyboard near the ouija board and grandpa is writing to a weird site named mastodon!!”
Johns@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs Same here, and I remember learning it was fun!
Maybe cause it was my first one but it was great, then I got to know others but never got that feeling again.
Maybe cause it was my first one but it was great, then I got to know others but never got that feeling again.
Axel GutmannNo, You're not. I started with (then quite new) FORTRAN 77 …
… using punch cards on an a UNIVAC 1100/60.
@virbonus @thomasfuchs I did get accused of cheating on my final project because I figured out how to use assembly routines in pascal and made a shoot'm up in mode 13H as a result. The normal Borland graphics routines were slower than dog dirt, and by using assembly it was blazing fast.
Tip of the cap to Fortran. You beat me as well.
@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs I never graduated to assembly though.
@virbonus @thomasfuchs Hah! I win then, because I know both MIPS and x86 assembly. Dabbled a bit with ARM, but can't claim I know it well.
@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs I'm still older!
@virbonus @thomasfuchs Also, when I was in college, a professor forced us to write a checkers program using punch cards just so we could feel the pain. I got it all done, and when I was walking back to my dorm room, I dropped the box of cards on the ground and it all went to crap. I just picked them up and threw them in the garbage.
@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs They weren't numbered? We had a punch card sorter back then.
But yes, coding on punch cards with the card punchers, reader, and printers on separate floors with a queue of students before each sure trains coding discipline.
But yes, coding on punch cards with the card punchers, reader, and printers on separate floors with a queue of students before each sure trains coding discipline.
@virbonus @thomasfuchs They were numbered, but since it was already graded and I had nothing to run them on myself, I just figured I'd chuck them rather than try to reorder them. Same thing happened when I finished a senior project that used a PIC18F on a breadboard. It was on the upper bunk of my dorm and it fell off and all the pieces just fell off. Chucked that as well.
@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs I used the backsides of punch cards as notepaper for years afterwards.
Son of a Sailor@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs You could do a lot with it. I used it to write a real-time burglar alarm monitoring application with a custom windowed interface. 🤓
John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️
Microsoft Office XP "Desk Drift" Commercial 2001
ÁngelMany things were Turbo those days, like Judas Priest's Lover.
Logan Land@thomasfuchs that logo is very nostalgic
claus@thomasfuchs What is a "Turbo Rascal"?
Aral Balkan@claus @thomasfuchs Like standard rascal but faster.
Davide@claus @thomasfuchs Delphi is based on this language.
Tim Johnsen
Space Hobo
Greg Bell
Sven/Sarah@thomasfuchs we do have a running cheetah on https://www.freepascal.org/, does that count? 🤔😅
Sablebadger@thomasfuchs nostalgia trip...
hollow-one@thomasfuchs i loved IT art of the 80s :)
Thomas Cherryhomes
Santiago Lema (old account) 
@[email protected] @thomasfuchs They don’t do gravity-defying bras like in those days anymore ! 😂
Not a Spring OnionHey, they stole that image from Megawars!
Or maybe Forth is the "dark sister of Algol"? 
Forgot the actual text in the alt text:
"From the dark sister of algol they came... unprovoked and undaunted in their determination to conquer, to enslave and rule.
From Algol they attacked and enslaved Perseus, conquered Capella and swept through Andromeda before we saw them.
That was 700 years ago.
Megawars began without warning... without any regard for peace...
Our civilization...
If you can read this you don't need glasses (rest too small to make out at least on this image)."
Oyu F'ka
maarten brouwers@thomasfuchs this is what liquid glass had to be.
Toni Aittoniemi@thomasfuchs turbo rascal
anjune@gimulnautti @thomasfuchs @byteborg @blagh @botvolution et al
Turbo Rascal exists as a many-platform retro IDE! (Its full name is Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN”.)
https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/
TawdryHepburn@thomasfuchs yes! But, to show we are cutting edge like those graphics and naming were, we should more modern words like Rizzin Ruby, Pukka python or kick-ass kotlin
Mark Whybird@TawdryHepburn @thomasfuchs Skibidi SQL
schrotthaufen@thomasfuchs @nixCraft I read that as TURBO RASCAL
SirWumpus 👾🍁@thomasfuchs @nixCraft
Turbo Pascal for Z80 based CP/M was bazinga fast. Came with a spread sheet demo that was excellent.
Turbo Pascal for Z80 based CP/M was bazinga fast. Came with a spread sheet demo that was excellent.
codepilot
Flaming Cheeto@thomasfuchs still the GOAT
Klaus666@thomasfuchs
War in den 90 der heiße Scheiß in den Schulen
War in den 90 der heiße Scheiß in den Schulen
@thomasfuchs I used more Borland C than Pascal but I remember that I was asked to implement an XML parser in Pascal in 2003.
FDev@thomasfuchs haha i was there, 2000 years ago
Ozzelot 
@thomasfuchs
Misread as "Turbo Rascal", lived in a world of whimsy for a second
Misread as "Turbo Rascal", lived in a world of whimsy for a second
NEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿@thomasfuchs omg this really is just absolutely turbo
Simon ZerafaBe careful what you wish for with Rust and Python 😉
Eloy.@thomasfuchs this goes hard
Freevolt@thomasfuchs If a modern language has a logo like this, which language would have the fanciest?
lu1a 
@thomasfuchs turbo pascal darras, there I said it
Aras Pranckevičius@thomasfuchs ...and books about programming languages like Forth on the Atari?
Sheldon@aras OMG, that book is something... it's like a zine about an obscure programming language.
https://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learning-by-Using.pdf
Anders Stenberg@aras @thomasfuchs Haha I was going to post this too. :D
botvolution@thomasfuchs we need turbo *rascal*