FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 21, 2022

Not Java Script, is it?

The best he could do is C++.

HTML, cobal, python…

It’s so BASIC

If he really was smart he would use Rust not C!

Forth is the way to go.

There is always R for the programming pirates.

I’ve always thought it would be cool to have a vanity plate that says BALR 14,15

I can’t believe he isn’t programming in Assembly, or maybe even binary.

I still remember Fortran. Just goes to show how ancient I am.

Lost In Stupid Parentheses. And on my bookshelf I still have a first printing Kernighan and Ritchie.

APL = A Programming Language

The only reason I subscribe to this comic is for its geek content.

I always loved COBOL. Afterwards, the industry went nuts with the alphabet and came up with dozens, if not hundreds, of new languages.

Let’s Go!!

Today his grade would improve to C++

Ha! Back in the ‘80s, I was known as one of the “Lords of Cobol”! (I know, in Battlestar Galactica it’s spelled with a ‘K’.)

You’re brushing up on your skills in C? Want a few pointers?

I remember trying to read a very thick book simply called, “MS DOS”. I was in nerdvana.

Our high school didn’t have a mainframe, so they sent us to a college to use theirs and run our punchcards. We had to wait for hours, and one bad card ruined it all

If Jason was neutered, he would be a UNIX.

Anyone else code in PL/I? Wasn’t used by too many, but GM’s old CAD/CAM system was written in PL/I, I loved it. When that system was finally retired, it was a sad day for me. I had to move on to C, C+…

Not even a “C+” student?

No one programmed in PostScript back in the days when the LaserWriter was Apple’s most powerful computer?

Maybe later he can give up programming and become A+ certified.

Maybe C+

What goes around comes around, Jason.