18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
3:27 p.m.
--- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any
language.
O man don't tell me that means a *real* pwogwammer
knows how to use the <TAB> key. Or spends half his
coding time running the spacebar.
"more transportable than Syphilis"
ewww. Nietschze is dead LOL LOL LOL
In spite of regular improvements(including a
recent option called
'STRUCTURE'), it remains popular among engineers
but despised elsewhere.
Unlikely the F variant (OO) is popular amongst
engineers. But what do I know.
FORTRAN survives,
nay, FLOURISHES, thanks
to a superior investmental inertia."
No, I think some people are just too lazy to learn a
new language LOL LOL. Actually if all the FORTRAN
code, libraries and all, were transformed into say C
or even C++ overnight, would the world be a better
place? The Intel Compiler I think plugs right into
Visual C++ GUI. For what all that mess is worth.
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