>> Before then we were creating make and batch files to get our exes built.
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>We still do, but these days we call that continuous integration. *g*
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>>Were you even born when MS C 6.0 shipped? *lol*
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>At that time I was writing machine code by typing characters into the screen memory buffer, because I couldn't afford an assembler. *g* Alas, that was on a 6510 CPU.

Somewhere in the basement there is a copy of MASM. I did start out programming IBM 370 assembly language but don't know what I was thinking there. I never wrote a thing with it.

Assembly language was a good foundation for me. C pointers and references held no mystery. Assembly is all pointers. 16 registers, only 12 of which you're supposed to use. You become accustomed to writing tight code.

The application I worked on was a fairly involved inventory control system. The beast of beasts was the program that found the ideal slot location for a pallet arriving in a warehouse. Every time you had to modify it you were in danger of blowing the size limit. One of the funniest times was when I made a small change for a client and went over. We had version control and I found that a coworker had changed it before me. He found two instructions that could safely be deleted and slipped his change into their place. LOL. (I changed it the way he should have if he wasn't so lazy, LOL again).