[nfbcs] first programs

[Dave Mehtingerr]

Cool stories. My first original program was written for my HS computer class in BASIC on a TRS80 that used cassette tapes for persistent storage and couldn't have had more than 512k of RAM. The program calculated the Cartesian coordinates of the position and velocity vectors of the (then) nine planets of the solar system at 1000 positions equally spaced on each elliptical orbit. The code took several hours to run and the resulting printout was probably at least 50 yards long. It was a great learning experience in managing very limited memory resources. 

> On Jan 26, 2014, at 7:00 AM, nfbcs-request at nfbnet.org wrote:
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> That's awesome. I have been working with perl a bit lately as well. It has very impressive speed when it comes to manipulating text. 
> 
> I really enjoy using python. Its very powerful for scientific research, especially when packages such as numPy and matplotlib are added.
> 
> Kevin
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> From: nfbcs [nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Jim Barbour [jbar at barcore.com]
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> Now that's cool!  I loved doing bio informatics in perl, and python
> was my bread and butter language at Google <grin>
> 
> Jim