Beginnings II.

As we need to tell computers what they have to do, we need to communicate with them using language that they know - the programming language. In fact - computers know only one language - the machine code, but the smart people prepared tools for us, mere mortals, to be able to tell computers our wishes and commands in so called higher languages (e.g. Basic ;-) ).
I decided to start in the middle of these approaches and started to learn Fortran (partly looks like machine code, partly like Basic). That was in early eighties and I didn't have access to any computer, IBM compatible PC were just born and there were only first messages about home computers like Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64. So I was learning programming in Fortran only theoretically. I don't know how successful I was, because I didn't compile any row of Fortran code. :-)