27 Sep
2014
27 Sep
'14
3:11 p.m.
On 9/27/2014 3:03 PM, Mouse wrote:
I think that FORTRAN was portable only if you had a main frame around
and a IBM card reader.
C is not
completely portable.
Neither is any other language.
FORTRAN was described as being as portable as
syphilis.
At the time, FORTRAN was about as good as it got for portability. Today? C is quite possibly the most widely portable
language there is.
(I feel reasonably sure there are more machines with C but not FORTRAN
than the other way around.)
Next month? Next year? Next decade? Sorry, my crystal ball is foggy.
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