SlimJimPoisson
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I finally joined this forum after too many searches sent me to excellent answers. I need a place to ask some possibly idiotically bizarre questions!
I wrote my first computer program in 1969 in BASIC on a DEC PDP-8/E with only 4k and a single 16-character string variable. However, it did have a pseudo-random number generator, so I wrote a simple number guessing game. This was in my father's physics lab and I was 8 years old.
My current project is personal only. I have created an application using Access that helps me manage my 10+k video files. It is complex, but still rough as it was developed solely to meet my needs. I find myself trying to bend Access in a way it should already work, but doesn't. Usually, I am successful, but lately it feels like I have been hitting the edge of the universe and bouncing back. I am actually proud of what I have accomplished so far as I am really not a big fan of Access and wish that it was so much better.
So, almost five decade later after learning more dead computer languages than most people have heard of I still find myself writing in some form of BASIC.
Today I taught my five-year-old daughter how to use the electronic wall that will keep the robot from bothering her when she's playing. I have no idea what her children will need to know, but I would not be surprised if some future form of BASIC is still useful.
Thanks to everyone here for all you have already done for me.
I wrote my first computer program in 1969 in BASIC on a DEC PDP-8/E with only 4k and a single 16-character string variable. However, it did have a pseudo-random number generator, so I wrote a simple number guessing game. This was in my father's physics lab and I was 8 years old.
My current project is personal only. I have created an application using Access that helps me manage my 10+k video files. It is complex, but still rough as it was developed solely to meet my needs. I find myself trying to bend Access in a way it should already work, but doesn't. Usually, I am successful, but lately it feels like I have been hitting the edge of the universe and bouncing back. I am actually proud of what I have accomplished so far as I am really not a big fan of Access and wish that it was so much better.
So, almost five decade later after learning more dead computer languages than most people have heard of I still find myself writing in some form of BASIC.
Today I taught my five-year-old daughter how to use the electronic wall that will keep the robot from bothering her when she's playing. I have no idea what her children will need to know, but I would not be surprised if some future form of BASIC is still useful.
Thanks to everyone here for all you have already done for me.
