Comments on: Going Down Memory Lane with C http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/09/16/going-down-memory-lane-with-c/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan Waddell http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/09/16/going-down-memory-lane-with-c/comment-page-1/#comment-1834 Ryan Waddell Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:44:35 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/?p=1417#comment-1834 I was at Waterloo for computer science from 1996 to 2001. We started out in Pascal, moved up to C, then Modula-3 to teach us object oriented techniques (thanks fellas, that's a handy language to have on the ol' resume), then c++ for pretty much the rest of the university career - except for μ++, a multi-threaded version of c++ that one of our profs created for us to learn multi-threading techniques. When I graduated in 2001, first years were using Java. I was very annoyed that they got to start out with such a cool language, at the time, while I was stuck starting out with useless Pascal. I can't believe that Apple is still using Objective-C. I had a co-op job back in 99/'00 using objective-c in windows (openstep, which later became webobjects after Apple bought it). I guess it's an ok language, it just seemed so bizarre. The fact that its origins lie back in the Next Cube days is pretty awesome though. :) I was at Waterloo for computer science from 1996 to 2001. We started out in Pascal, moved up to C, then Modula-3 to teach us object oriented techniques (thanks fellas, that’s a handy language to have on the ol’ resume), then c++ for pretty much the rest of the university career – except for μ++, a multi-threaded version of c++ that one of our profs created for us to learn multi-threading techniques. When I graduated in 2001, first years were using Java. I was very annoyed that they got to start out with such a cool language, at the time, while I was stuck starting out with useless Pascal.

I can’t believe that Apple is still using Objective-C. I had a co-op job back in 99/’00 using objective-c in windows (openstep, which later became webobjects after Apple bought it). I guess it’s an ok language, it just seemed so bizarre. The fact that its origins lie back in the Next Cube days is pretty awesome though. :)

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