User:Gerard Schildberger
Gerard Schildberger can be reached at e-mail: Gerard46@rrt.net
computer programming languages I know ─── or think I know | |
| Language | Proficiency |
| ACP | now decrepit |
| ALGOL 68 | rusted shut |
| APL | wrote two programs, but I can't read them |
| BASIC | good |
| BASIC (other flavors) | so so |
| BPL | (a PL/I subset) one of the authors |
| C | middling |
| C# | less then C |
| C++ | even less then C# |
| COBOL | ok (I never let anybody know, lest I'd get roped into coding) |
| DOS batch | so-so |
| Easytrieve | meh |
| EXEC | proficient |
| EXEC2 | proficient |
| FOCUS | poor |
| FORTRAN | productive, those were the days |
| Fortran | was good, now rusty |
| GML | pretty good, wrote several CMS tomes in it |
| GPSS | ok, but mostly forgotten |
| HPL | (a PL/I subset) one of the early authors |
| HTML | mostly, monkey see, monkey do |
| IBM assembler and macros (360, 370) | proficient |
| IRAP | author |
| Java | poor, but dangerous (gun, foot) |
| JavaScript | see program below |
| JCL | good |
| JOVIAL | used it thrice |
| KEXX | proficient |
| Kingston FORTRAN II | proficient |
| Lisp | was so-so, but now, not so much |
| Modula-2 | very rusty |
| MUMPS | used in '69, forgot everything |
| NOMAD | poor |
| PARS | now decrepit |
| Pascal | beginner |
| PL/I | good to gooder |
| QBE | defunct, but I liked the concept |
| REXX | proficient |
| RPG | less than ok |
| SAS | ok |
| Script | pretty good |
| Script/370 | good |
| Script/VS | good |
| Snobol | was ok, but non-functional |
| SQL | not so good anymore |
| Viatron FORTRAN IV | was one of the authors |
ACP and PARS ─── I was part of the team that first implemented the Passenger Airline Reservation System for a hotel/motel business ─── a motel room is just a huge seat (chair) with a bed, alarm clock, TV (color!), ice bucket, and a personal bathroom (tub & shower) with soap, shampoo, and towels, ··· but doesn't fly anywhere.
APL ─── still bemuses me. I once read in "The IBM Journal" on an article on APL that the article's author wrote a 2-line APL program that validated chess moves (except for queening and castling). He said he could condense the 2-liner into a 1-liner, but then it would be harder to read. Funniest thing I ever read in an "IBM Journal" article.
BPL ─── (Basic Programming Language) was a Honeywell subset of the PL/I language (I was one of a dozen or so programmers/authors).
HPL ─── (Honeywell Programming Language) was a subset of PL/I (similar to above) and was to be used for Honeywell's new computer (code name unknown) ─── it was never built, but from what I could glean from the specs, it would have used HPL as it's native [machine] language and seemed to have some of the characteristics of IBM's FS system (and apparently, suffered the same fate).
Kingston FORTRAN II ─── (locally called FORTRAN 2.5) was for the IBM 1620 with a lot of FORTRAN IV capability. It supported floating point arithmetic even if the (optional) hardware feature for floating point wasn't installed.
Viatron FORTRAN IV ─── was the FORTRAN compiler for the Viatron home computer (I was one of the CUC authors of the compiler and libraries; CUC was the Computer Usage Company, at that time, the oldest software company in the USA) and had it's fingers in writing some of the routines for IBM's TSS, which enabled CUC to write the first non─IBM book on writhing/coding assembler for the IBM/360.
I also update the (English) Wikipedia page for Rosetta Code from time to time.
A JavaScript program to present a toggle switch (on a bar) for syntax highlighting:
This will allow you to turn on/off syntax highlighting for any computer programming language entry (that uses a <lang xxx>) on a case by case basis.
The default is off.
A wide solid bar (64 characters) is also presented to make the text «toggle syntax highlighting» part of the toggle bar appear at the right of your screen window.
This wide solid bar also makes each computer programming example more clearly separated (differentiated).
Clicking on the text within the « » (guillemet) characters toggles the syntax highlighting on and off.
It also appears to render the (complete) Rosetta Code task page faster as it bypasses the syntax highlighting for all computer programming entries.
(function(){
function get_code_pres() {
var pres = document.getElementsByTagName('pre');
var codes = [];
for(var i=0;i<pres.length;i++)
if(pres[i].className.match(/\bhighlighted_source\b/)) codes.push(pres[i]);
return codes;
}
function toggle_highlight(pre) {
if(pre._alt_html == null) {
pre._alt_html = pre.innerHTML;
var spans = pre.getElementsByTagName('span');
for(var i=0;i<spans.length;i++) spans[i].className = '';
}
else {
var z=pre.innerHTML;
pre.innerHTML=pre._alt_html;
pre._alt_html=z;
}
}
function show_toggle() { // the bar below has 64 'db'x characters.
var xdb = '█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████';
var bar = xdb.concat(' «toggle syntax highlighting»');
var codes = get_code_pres();
for(var i=0;i<codes.length;i++) {
var a=document.createElement('a');
a.textContent = bar;
a.style.cursor = 'pointer';
(function(e) {a.addEventListener('click', function()
{ toggle_highlight(e);
}, false);
e.parentNode.insertBefore(a, e);
}
) (codes[i]);
toggle_highlight(codes[i]);
}
}
show_toggle();
}
)
();
(I didn't write the above program, but I modified the heck out of it.)
To update your preferences, go to:
Preferences (tab which is after your userName at the top right of the screen)
Appearance (tab)
Skin (section)
Shared CSS/JavaScript for all skins: (section)
Custom JavaScript (tab)
Edit (tab)
(paste the JavaScript program here)
Save page (tab)
(read the notes at the top of the page)
Then go to some Rosetta Code task and view the results.
You may have to refresh the cache as per the notes.
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- GPSS User
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- HTML User
- IBM assembler and macros (360, 370) User
- IRAP User
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- JavaScript User
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- JOVIAL User
- KEXX User
- Kingston FORTRAN II User
- Lisp User
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- NOMAD User
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- Pascal User
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- REXX User
- RPG User
- SAS User
- Script User
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- Snobol User
- SQL User
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