Worse. As a Systems Development Designer and Programmer, one of my duties was proofreading others design documents, and having my design documents proofread. I spent 21 years at it. And you have to admit, the language skills had to be at the post college level, which made it quite challenging ---  and humbling.

Retired for 14 years now. And it would be rare indeed if you encountered what I worked on, at least directly, since it is an Operating System that was introduced in the 1960s and is still in iterative development today.

 I never played the original GalCiv (I started on 2), os what are some of the snarkest comments made in the original GalCiv?

The OS is one you may not have heard of. As of my retirement it was called MVS, although it had had many name changes before then, and in its earlier incarnations predated Unix. We also had VM as an operating system, which had some special purposes.

As to higher level languages, PL/1 came out in the 1960s, FORTRAN came out in the 1950s, and COBOL came out in 1960-1961. All three of these Generation 3 languages predate the arrival of C. We also had a series of Gen 3 compilers that were internal to the company.

They talked about languages in generations, kind of an easy way of saying how many levels away from machine code the language was, Generation 1 was machine code (not even an assembler), Gen 2 was assembler, Gen 3 was higher languages, including both compiled and interpreted languages. There was talk of Gen 4 languages, but I never saw a language that ever lived up to the billing. If you are interested, you can look up these languages in Wikipedia. When looking for C, you may have to look for "C (programming language)". Other languages you may be interested are "ADA (programming language)", PASCAL, "Basic (programming language)", and REXX. Basic and Rexx are older examples of interpretive languages (interpreted and run at time of use). All of the others mentioned above are compiled languages (compiled into machine language code before use).

If you are interested in other trivia, HTML, XHTML, and CSS are, in appearance at least, outgrowths of a set of document compilers called "Document Composition Facility" languages, one of which was called SCRIPT ("Script (markup)" in Wikipedia). There are many outgrowths of these now.

JAVA and JAVAScript fits in here somewhere, but I think we have been off topic enough as it is.

It's kind of weird like they talk about only Unix like it was the first operating system. There's probably just to many to talk about all of them. I will try to remember that Unix was not the first.

What I meant that C was made to program Unix not that Unix. As far as high level languages I would think that Mv was probably originally programmed in Assembly language. I imagine that it is today probably programmed in C++. Unless the company you worked for had that good of their own compilers. This is referring of programming the operating system not the various programming needs. Yes as far as my understanding the C language went backwards with using an assembler.

The only one of those I'm not familiar with is Rexx. My question of generation 4 how would they fathom one. Honestly from what I can see is that each generation takes you away from the control of the computer, and is easier to read. This effectively gives you the ability to make bigger programs that to my opinion would run slower because you spend less time on reading an easier to understand language.

Kind of sad to my opinion this looks like the user replacement to Basic as far as the universal language on the computers. Trading a scientific language that was getting better for a language that all it does is write test. I imagine that Html is an interpreter not a compiler. I actually don't know this. Something else Visual basic has none thing to do with Basic it is C#.

JAVA and JAVAScript fits in here somewhere, but I think we have been off topic enough as it is.[/quote]

This is about Java. So far we have Binary, assembler, compiler, and interpreter. We also have a fourth option. Assemblers interpret language to Binary. Compilers really does the same thing. The only difference I know is that Assembly, and Binary  language comes with the computer. Other languages reside on the hard drive. An interpreter reads, and executes the program one line at a time.

The problem with this option is that other assembly, and binary languages is that the program has to be recompiled for each operating system format. Java has come up with a compromise for this. It's something like a virtual machine which reads the same code. This would require the computer to have this virtual machine. If any computer that has this specific virtual machine could run any Java program regardless of operating system.

Java script is a different language than Java. It is aces able by Html. My guess this language was made to give Html more power without making it more complicated if the user doesn't want it.

You mean Zenix Bill Gates original operating system probably to compete with Pc dos. In the days before Microsoft bought dos from Ibm.

I saw a really old book on programming not to long ago. I think it was on a early version of VB and it talked about this new gadget called the scroll bar.

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Haha!!!