-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 19 January 2017 06:53 To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Perhaps I asked the wrong question...
I've come to what is left of my senses: I am not remotely qualified to learn assembly.
Sticking with BASIC for now. There is much left for me to learn in this language.
I don't believe that any one is ever qualified to learn Assembler Can I recommend a diversion from actually programming and learning about the Art of Programming? Perhaps get a copy of Volume 1 of Knuth... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming which is about "how to program"...
New fork for this discussion: someday, if I ever have bunches of free time (ha!), maybe I should learn another high-level language. I now realize that could be any number of choices: C, COBOL, Forth, Fortran, Pascal, Java, and others .... which would be easiest for a liberal arts person like me to transition into from BASIC, and which would best serve me as a tour guide at the museum?
Dave G4UGM