posted Nov 19, 2010, 7:11 PM by Jeff Ogden
The following is an interesting quote from An Interview with Brian Kernighan: Breeding Little Languages, by Allen Noren (2009) when he was asked "What hooked you on programming?":
- I think that the most fun I had programming was a summer job at
Project MAC at MIT in the summer of 1966, where I worked on a program
that created a job tape for the brand new GE 645 in the earliest days of
Multics. I was writing in MAD, which was much easier and more pleasant
than the FORTRAN and COBOL that I had written earlier, and I was using
CTSS, the first time-sharing system, which was infinitely easier and
more pleasant than punch cards.
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