14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
11:45 a.m.
>Suppose you wanted to write an application for a
manufacturing process that
>will, in all probability, run for the next 30 years. No direct control of
>the process itself is entailed (i.e., you don't need the program to
>operation valves or run motors), but you do need this program to compute
>manufacturing parameters for each customer. I/O requirements are very
>modest, mostly simple keyboard and display.
>So what would it be? My vote is for FORTRAN.
Forth.
PILOT.
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