From: Robert Cummings > On 10-07-29 10:18 PM, David McGlone wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:14 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: >>> Early high school I used to program in basic on a TRS-80. Oh how I loved >>> saving my programs to audio cassette. Later in high school I learned >>> pascal and then later qbasic. Later still I studied computer science and >>> was exposed to many different languages C, C++, Smalltalk, Java, >>> Scheme, Prolog, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, VRML, SQL that I remember. When >>> I finished university I walked straight into a PHP job knowing not an >>> iota of PHP. I came up to speed the first week and fell in love with it. >>> That was around March 2000. The company there always used Java also, as >>> part of a desktop suite to manage the web content. Towards the end of >>> 2002 they began an effort to create a Java based web framework to >>> parallel their PHP framework and so I used Java more at that time. Then >>> the dot com crash caught up with them and layoffs ensued. >>> >> What High School did you go to? What year? As far as I remember when I >> was in HS, nothing about computers was offered. this was back in '88. > > I was attending the Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof, > British Columbia, Canada in 1989 when I was learning Pascal. Now that I > think of it more deeply, it wasn't Qbasic in high schoool, it was Watcom > Basic while attending Timmins High & Vocational School in Timmins, > Ontario, Canada in 1990 or 1991. Qbasic was at home :) Actually, I'm not > sure about Timmins for the Watcom Basic, it might have been Lockerby > Composite in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. I attended 4 different high > schools. Some if it is blurry now :) The use of Watcom tools would make sense since the Wat was an abbreviation of Waterloo, Ontario. That was also the source of the WatFor Fortran compiler I used in 1968. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
