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

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

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Post by bitwize »

richardjam73 wrote: post #3

The Nimbus used in the C demonstration seems to be a 16bit 80186 computer. It runs DOS but is not PC compatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus

Every 80186 DOS machine was like that, the most famous one in the USA being the Tandy 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_2000

The Mindset was another, that languished in obscurity until a cache of them were found at Computer Reset:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_(computer)

The 186 had on-chip stuff (timers, an interrupt controller, and so forth) at I/O addresses where the PC had different stuff offboard, thus precluding the possibility of a 100% PC compatible 186 machine. So there were a few interesting, not-quite-PC DOS machine designs running a 186 out there.

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

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Post by andromaton »

Jump to 13:05 (also shown on the right menu) for an intro to those languages.

The page has a link to "RUN SOFTWARE". The link opens a 'BBC Micro' emulator that runs the software shown on the thumbnail.

You can edit the program in all its 1980's Acorn Basic glory.

Btw, "Acorn" is the "A" in "ARM", as in billions of CPUs today, and the BBC Micro is the inspiration behind the Raspberry Pi.

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

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Post by empressplay »

danjoredd wrote: post #5

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.

We're building a 3D game development environment that uses an enhanced version of Logo. It has 'spaces' that start out simple and get more complex.

You can check out our progress so far at https://turtlespaces.org

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

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Post by bawolff »

simonblack wrote: post #2

Good ol' C, still in the 'most used' group 40 years later. The other four? Not so much today.

I think the craziest thing is the (far in the distance) runner up is probably prolog, which is also maybe the most unique of the bunch.

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

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Post by hilsdev »

simonblack wrote: post #2

Good ol' C, still in the 'most used' group 40 years later. The other four? Not so much today.

It was a small shop but I worked for a company that used DSPs running forth. It was my first introduction to meta programming. I learned a lot there

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

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Post by sdsd »

empressplay wrote: post #14

Logo is not an acronym. It's an abbreviation of Logos.

Idk why but even highly knowledgeable people capitalize random tech words. In the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate, Tanenbaum regularly calls it LINUX (maybe a habit because UNIX is smallcaps'd per the trademark?). Lisp is often called LISP (check Wikiquote for ample examples), although this is forgivable since Lisp really did used to be an all-caps acronym.

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

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Post by jweir »

danjoredd wrote: post #5

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.

Check out QLogo, under active development.

I was teaching my daughter to program with it. Quiet fun.

https://qlogo.org

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