On 08/11/2018 02:03 PM, keithv wrote:
> : Guess I'll have to use BASIC.
> : p.s. I predate Dartmouth BASIC. Used CORC/CUPL <we beat them in football
> : and hockey IIRC ;/
>
> Very interesting. But don't forget that Dartmouth and Basic also had DTSS, the first successful large-scale time-sharing system. So student programs could be developed interactively and didn't need to batch processed.
>
> As to football, I leave you with two links:
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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cornell%E2%80%93Dartmouth_football_rivalry
For the years I was on campus. I evidently was correct - would have to
did out transcript to verify.
When my father was on campus, no doubt.
You didn't mention hockey ;> In my day, we always made the ECAC playoffs.
BTW
Proof someone's sense of humor resembles mine.
They may even be as old as I.
OK. You taught me something. I had always assumed Edmund and Ezra were
contemporaries. Their statues are less than ~50 fee3t apart ;}
P.S. In 1940 not only did I not exist, but my parents had not met.
>
> Keith
>
A side issue is confronting today's youngsters with concepts enunciated
by Turing in early 20th century. [Rest of paragraph intentionally *NOT*
written. ;]
BTW any flowchart I produce will have strong .relationship to BASIC.
Any code I produce will likely be in Tcl as it is more convenient.
/end of editorial <GRIN>