[SCIRUBY] how the move from pdp-11 assembler to ruby took steve jenkins' breath away

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this week on sciruby steve jenkins gives us peek into his trip from lo to ja:

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   [SciRuby] What languages have you used?

     Over the years, BASIC, BASIC-PLUS, FOCAL, PDP-8 assembler, PDP-11
     assembler, Fortran, Ratfor, C, sh, Awk, Perl, Ruby.

   [SciRuby] What is your favorite?

     Currently, Ruby. But I thought I'd gone to heaven when I got my first
     Ratfor preprocessor. If you've written much Fortran IV, you know why.

come on down to

   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/SciRubyInterviews/StevenJenkins

and read all about it.

enjoy.

-a

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