If you?re an ?old geek? like me, you remember a number of software products that ?changed the world?. VisiCalc was THE spreadsheet of the day ! It might have done 2% of what Excel 2010 does, but when it was released it was an AMAZING innovation. And how about DBase II (first released for CP/M) ? It wasn?t the first database in the world, nor was it the first programming language, but it was an amazing innovation for the developer of the day that has evolved into forms that the original dBase creators probably never envisioned ! And then there was Turbo Pascal !!!! When I got my first copy of Turbo Pascal it was pure genius. I think I paid $80 for it for my Televideo 802 CP/M machine. Up until then I was coding in assembly. The ?C? compiler...(read more) ...
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