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Tracy Logan

@tracylogan.bsky.social

Husband, programmer, musician, gardener, biker, reader, etc.

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Tracy Logan @tracylogan.bsky.social · 2y ago

My first computer program - a #HelloWorld example showing text output in SNOBOL My dad demo'd an Intro To Computing session, at #AntiochCollege, for students at #TheAntiochSchool; I loved it - tried different permutations, adding complexity, etc - but most of the other kids just wrote naughty words

Image of the text from http://helloworldcollection.de/#Snobol, demonstrating a simple program in the computer language SNOBOL (unrelated to COBOL; its full name is "StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language")

The header is a rectangle with a background that is approximately navy blue in color, and text in white that reads:

Snobol

The body is black text on a white background, which demonstrates a comment in the first line, followed by a line that demonstrates writing the phrase "Hello World!" to the output device:

* Hello World in Snobol

OUTPUT = "Hello World!"

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL for more details on this interesting early computer language; the summary from that article reads:

SNOBOL ("StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.

Tracy Logan @tracylogan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fascinating personal history of ColdFusion (the computer language) www.cfwhisperer.net/p/the-story-...

The Story Of CFwhisperer

Allaire-Macromedia-Adobe ColdFusion Changed My Life - Here's How

cfwhisperer.net

Tracy Logan @tracylogan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Still figuring out SM best practices for finding and following interesting people. Here on Bluesky, I'm going to try splitting my interests into multiple alts, each one only following people who share those interests; we'll see how that goes. This one is for coding, making, fixing, et cetera.