Show of Hands

I was proficient at coding in COBOL. I enjoyed it.

I didn’t know you were in IT.

GA, I’ve had a whole bunch of interesting career choices, but I spent my longest time in the field of computers at nuclear facilities, 20+ years. Learned from every job (none of which is really related to each other), but was fascinated by nukes. Which is why I tend to prefer scientific programming structures.
I do remember one COBOL program I was trying to find a glitch in and for the life of me, I had looked at it so long I needed a break. I asked my boss to take a look to see if he could find the bug. Came back from lunch and found the printout on my desk with a note saying Found It! ... I leafed thru it to the location of the error, and he had put 2 dead bugs from the yard in between the pages. 🥴 Like I said, I was better at Assembler, etc.
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Nice you mentioned Grace... Go Navy! ⚓️
I’ll also mention Ada Lovelace, often cited aa the very first programmer and her namesake programming language, Ada, my personal favorite!

And let’s not forget Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer in real-time embedded programming for ‘manned’ aerospace systems. www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apollo-software

A wonderful graphic. I wrote in several from each age but faded as JavaScript came opón the scene. Interesting history!

Your first programming language was a stone tablet and a chisel.

Close! Punch cards, tapes and a printer. 8k CPU. The 7074 did the processing and created a tape to print. Program was loaded by cards.
But in 1965 I was well ahead of most! Bought a portable computer in 1988 for $2grand. 10 meg hard drive, 5.25 disk.
In 1982 I bought my son a TI99 computer. It had basic, Hasp and machine code.

My first rig was a trs-80 from radio shack/Tandy.

Did you ever drop a box of those cards. Disaster.

I don’t know how they measure it.

Lines of code?
Numbers of people who program in those languages?
How many commercial applications written in those languages?

You raise a good question!

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