Yes, it was my most brainy job I ever had and most successful output per time put in job I ever worked.  Later I worked with Windows© software, and I never grasped it, too big, too much too learn.

The neat thing about the old Dos programming was that you could still make buttons on the screen for the machine operator, you just had to design the whole thing from scratch, but that made it more interesting and flexible too.

Ever tried Euphoria programming language?  I wrote out *.WAV files with it and wrote a songwriting program that can play 24 notes in an octave, that means there is a note in between each note on the piano's chromatic scale, allowing for UFO sounds and stuff.

I used Euphoria for Windows, they have it for DOS too still.  It's free, see website if want.
It's cool because you can make lists and arrays that can grow and all the memory allocation is kept hidden from you.  There is a manual or two to read by some of the community that built it.  I took Pascal in college, but really it is easier in some ways.  The types of data, like integer and char and string and stuff are not conventional, you'd have to read about it to see, but it is really neat.  I haven't used it for about 8 months now.  I go back to my program to improve it about twice a year.  And don't forget to back up your fav programs you write onto ministicks, I'm sure you do.

Can you get a version of LISP for free or must you purchase it?  (open source LISP?)

Yeah I just got the stalin compiler with makefile.
I may read about it more later. (for scheme lisp)

mmmm... wiki article shewd a bit of it.  Looks (dur) hard.

Is ADA functional?

Yep, wiki says DoD used it and Ada is named after aleged 1st programmer from 1800's!!
Hey, you know the two guys that invented C? 
They wrote a cool small book with a tremendous last chapter with the syntax of C very well defined.
I read it over and over long ago.

I used to use the Herbert Schildt book for that.

Hi John;

That was me and I do apologize but that was a nasty spammer who likes to post porn. I have had him before under different names. If I let him persist then he drops the other stuff which is very offensive.

That was because I had to delete his post which takes out the whole thread unfortunately. He is barred for now but he will be back. I am truly sorrow that you had to penalized.