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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In college back in 1991. Also had to do PASCAL and FORTRAN but thankfully those two were in a single course.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I also took PASCAL in the 90s, but it is considered a high level language, and writes similarly to other high lvl languages, assembly has a very different syntax

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Oh, I know. I meant that we had to take courses on older languages as part of the curriculum. That was a funky little college program. The oddest experience for me was taking Python back in the day as the "new thing" then not seeing it again until it absolutely exploded ~10 years ago. That program is also why I ended up playing with Linux so early on. The professors truly seemed to have a passion for emerging technologies while not wanting anyone to forget what came before. Thankfully, no punch cards.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

We used turbo pascal in school in the early 90’s. And it had assembly blocks… which I used copious amounts of because it was the only way to make the IBM PS/1’s do useful graphics.