Keep going Francis! You beat me to your first digital computer - I had to wait until 1961! Still, I more or less fulfill your points 1 to 4.
I loved programming and software design, and recycled myself after retirement so as to get some of the magic back. LiveCode (and its predecessors) seemed the obvious way to go… I am also not the oldest programmer/developer in the world, but I’m just a **bit** older than you… Graham > On 29 Apr 2016, at 19:51, Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > > It all depends on what you mean by "developer" : > > 1 - You write apps for your own use ? > 2 - You sell your apps for money, or give them away to anyone who wants them ? > 3 - You spent several years with a software house developing for them ? > 4 - You create apps because you love turning problems into apps ? > 5 - Your computer runs Window 3, and you don't use it any more > (but you did live some "developer "days !) > > For me, all but no. 5 are true ! I write apps (now using liveCode) every day, > 'cos I always find a new reason that I didn't have yesterday. > I wrote my first program (just curious) on an ICL computer at > Liverpool University, in 1959 (or was it 1960 ?) My buddy ran it for me. > My first real computer was an IBM 1401 (early 60's), where I moved > from machine code through Assembler, to PL/1. Then I moved into > "Data Transmission" which kept me rather busy until I retired. > Then I started writing apps in earnest (on a daily basis, but for myself). > I've been writing (mostly) for fun since then. > > I am certainly not the oldest programmer/developer in the world, > but I do my bit. I'm hitting 74 .......... > > -Francis > > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !" > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
