How geeky are you?

[Byron In Exile]

Byron, I see you're moonlighting.

(Shh! Nobody suspects that Rob and I are the same person! It's a secret.)

 

[Byron In Exile]

I don't know if it's java or ********** that's banned.

edit - Ok, that answers that. Not uncommon really.

Yeah, it's ********** that's banned.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Which one did you miss?

The very last one.

 

[Noor]

First, it was Fortran on the IBM 1130, here and then the 360 up north. Lots and lots of cards. Then, boxes and boxes of card when running dynamic analysis jobs on the CDC 6400 in grad school.

My first was assembly on a relative's computer, then Basic on a Pdp 11 using RSTS in high school. Only used cards for one class at my first college it was COBOL, a horrible language with apologies to Grace Hopper.

 

[thør]

My first was assembly on a relative's computer, then Basic on a Pdp 11 using RSTS in high school. Only used cards for one class at my first college it was COBOL, a horrible language with apologies to Grace Hopper.

Engineers tended to use Fortran on the mainframes. No COBOL.

 

[KRCummings]

24% and I'm not entirely sure how I got that high.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My first was assembly on a relative's computer, then Basic on a Pdp 11 using RSTS in high school. Only used cards for one class at my first college it was COBOL, a horrible language with apologies to Grace Hopper.

[FONT="Courier New"]IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. BASHNOOR.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-FIRST PIC X(08) VALUE "Shaddup ".
01 WS-SECOND PIC X(04) VALUE "Noor".
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY WS-FIRST.
DISPLAY WS-SECOND.
STOP RUN.[/FONT]

 

[Noor]

Engineers tended to use Fortran on the mainframes. No COBOL.

I know, not terribly fond of Fortran either, it always seemed kind of dull.

 

[Noor]

[FONT="Courier New"]

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. LOVENOOR.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-FIRST PIC X(08) VALUE "Wonderful ".
01 WS-SECOND PIC X(04) VALUE "Noor".
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY WS-FIRST.
DISPLAY WS-SECOND.
STOP RUN.
[/FONT]

I fixed your post for you!

 

[Noor]

The very last one.

Apparently I did too! thanks

 

[RobDownSouth]

I fixed your post for you!

heh heh....compile error in line 6!

 

[Noor]

heh heh....compile error in line 6!

The space?

 

[Recidiva]

The space?

Nah, you're just wonderful with extra room.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The space?

s/b Pic X(10) now

(Gawd, I haven't touched a COBOL program since 1995 and I still remember this stuff!!)

 

[Phelia]

69%. Is that the score you get when you sleep with geeks? Because if so, how did they know???

I could usually pick out the "correct" geeky answer, but it wasn't the first thing that I thought of, and I didn't cheat because internet quizzes need to be taken very seriously.

 

[KRCummings]

69%. Is that the score you get when you sleep with geeks? Because if so, how did they know???

I could usually pick out the "correct" geeky answer, but it wasn't the first thing that I thought of, and I didn't cheat because internet quizzes need to be taken very seriously.

I cheated on an internet IQ test once just for the fun of it. Said my IQ was 210 or something like that. Ridiculous but don't think I didn't send that out to a few people.

 

[butters]

about the geekiest i get is watching TBBT

score: 38%

 

[RobDownSouth]

I cheated on an internet IQ test once just for the fun of it. Said my IQ was 210 or something like that. Ridiculous but don't think I didn't send that out to a few people.

I have a female cousin with a stratospheric IQ like that.

I'm convinced they used her as the basis for the "Seven of Nine" character in Star Trek Voyager.

"The extreme turgid condition in your lower extremity would seem to indicate a desire for immediate procreation activity..."

 

[thør]

I know, not terribly fond of Fortran either, it always seemed kind of dull.

HPBasic was much more lively; you could hear the relays click in the data logger and watch the displays flash on the instruments.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The modern form and the popular use with reference to circus sideshow "wild men" is from 1946, in William Lindsay Gresham's novel "Nightmare Alley" (made into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power).

"An ordinary geek doesn't actually eat snakes, just bites off chunks of 'em, chicken heads and rats." [Arthur H. Lewis, "Carnival," 1970]

 

[Noor]

s/b Pic X(10) now

(Gawd, I haven't touched a COBOL program since 1995 and I still remember this stuff!!)

I haven't touch it since 1977

 

[RobDownSouth]

I haven't touch it since 1977

I only started touching it in 1980.

COBOL, that is.