Fundamentals of math are back! And more.

Mad Mike said:
I’d enjoy that. My programming days ended way back, the last program I wrote was in Z80 assembler, it was to run a keyboard using an rs232 serial interface for the CP/M operating system. C was gaining popularity as 16 and 32 bit processors came along, just around the time I discovered a salesmen made double that of a coder, ate, golfed and travelled free, only worked 30 serious hours a week. Bye bye compilers and free pizza, hello cheap suits and an Audi.

I also wrote a pile of business utility stuff using the original interpreter Basic. If anyone remembers the 2 player version of Pong that came with Osborne and Sinclair computers — that was me!
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I wrote code in PL1, and a subset of that, called SPK. PL1 stood for Programming Language 1. Very similar to Fortran, but a bit more forgiving with regards to syntax. Punchcards for the win. Never used it again, but as mentioned above, the logic and ability to figure things out sequentially etc. was a good thing to know.
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