This slightly off the sync topic is of my own initiative and is probably the least serious of this forum.
I am pretty convinced that, like music is, GP is for everybody with ages ranging from 7 to 77 years old and even more!
Just for fun, I would find amusing to try to higlight it. I noticed in another topic that some users compete to be recognized as the oldest GP users and perhaps we could give the youngest users a chance to express themselves about this.
So, if you are able to setup your own GP gig file you are eligible and if you also think you could be the youngest or the oldest in the GP community forum, please feel free to give us your year of birth here and enter in the GP age of fame chart:
GP users in the community forum:
possibly youngest GP user in the community forum: @Couack 26 (1996)
possibly oldest GP user in the community forum: @kencasino 79 (1943)
Special category for GP users in the community forum with GPScript skills:
possibly youngest GPScript user in the community forum: @Couack 26 (1996)
possibly oldest GPScript user in the community forum: @pianopaul 61 (1961)
Not applying for the Special category. I promised myself Iād never write another Excel macro, ever, and I havenāt. All of my professional coding was in assembler and C. Donāt miss that, either.
Right, well, unfortunately not
I translated it wrong, and interpreted it as GPScriptUser; my skills are REALLY basic, just at documentation level, and indeed more a user, borrowing from other posts. So, I defo donāt belong on top of the top list Sorry for the misinterpretationā¦
You stated ā7-77ā. Joe is 78 and heās running for president. I figure heāll love composing a great new victory song with Gigperformer 3 and so, shouldnāt be excluded from using it. How about 3 to 103?
No, but Iām assuming you mean this guy, professor and publisher of a 360/370 assembler programming book. I started with octal assembler on a PDP-8e (the last one with a wirewrapped motherboard; 32K x 12 of core and a 1 MB 14" platter; a 3-pass paper tape assembler and the everloving TED editor). Used them to control the neutrino beam line at Fermilab.
I loved the 6809. Two stacks! Perfect for Forth! But then Motorola hosed me. They stopped work on the 68HC09 (the CMOS version, which I needed for the solar power telemetry products I was designing for Amoco) and diverted all resources to the 68000. Bastidges. I had to switch to the NSC800 (CMOS Z80). Lost that second stack. But I was ready for CP/M when it arrived!
So, of course, I left Amoco for Motorola in '89.
EDIT: I now recall that the 6502 was a great little Forth processor.