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Tracy Logan @tracylogan.bsky.social · Jan 18
My first computer program - a
#HelloWorld example showing text output in SNOBOL

My dad demo'd an Intro To Computing session, at #AntiochCollege, for students at #TheAntiochSchool; I loved it - tried different permutations, adding complexity, etc - but most of the other kids just wrote naughty words
Image of the text from http://helloworldcollection.de/#Snobol, demonstrating a simple program in the computer language SNOBOL (unrelated to COBOL; its full name is "StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") The header is a rectangle with a background that is approximately navy blue in color, and text in white that reads: Snobol The body is black text on a white background, which demonstrates a comment in the first line, followed by a line that demonstrates writing the phrase "Hello World!" to the output device: * Hello World in Snobol OUTPUT = "Hello World!" See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL for more details on this interesting early computer language; the summary from that article reads: SNOBOL ("StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.
tracylogan.bsky.social
My first computer program - a
#HelloWorld example showing text output in SNOBOL

My dad demo'd an Intro To Computing session, at #AntiochCollege, for students at #TheAntiochSchool; I loved it - tried different permutations, adding complexity, etc - but most of the other kids just wrote naughty words
Image of the text from http://helloworldcollection.de/#Snobol, demonstrating a simple program in the computer language SNOBOL (unrelated to COBOL; its full name is "StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") The header is a rectangle with a background that is approximately navy blue in color, and text in white that reads: Snobol The body is black text on a white background, which demonstrates a comment in the first line, followed by a line that demonstrates writing the phrase "Hello World!" to the output device: * Hello World in Snobol OUTPUT = "Hello World!" See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL for more details on this interesting early computer language; the summary from that article reads: SNOBOL ("StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.
January 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Fascinating personal history of ColdFusion (the computer language)

www.cfwhisperer.net/p/the-story-...
The Story Of CFwhisperer
Allaire-Macromedia-Adobe ColdFusion Changed My Life - Here's How
www.cfwhisperer.net
December 17, 2024 at 11:19 PM
tracylogan.bsky.social
Still figuring out SM best practices for finding and following interesting people.

Here on Bluesky, I'm going to try splitting my interests into multiple alts, each one only following people who share those interests; we'll see how that goes.

This one is for coding, making, fixing, et cetera.
December 10, 2024 at 9:37 PM