30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
8:28 a.m.
On Oct 30, 2015, at 5:29 AM, Liam Proven <lproven
at gmail.com> wrote:
?Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages
To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know
FORTRAN and assembly languages.
?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-e…
Neat. I would think that a large fraction of the membership of this list is qualified for
that job. Assembly language programming, on a machine with such large memory as 64k?
Sure. Fortran? Algol? Even those who don't know can likely learn it easily.
The key requirement is the mindset needed to work on old computers, with (by today's
standards) slow execution and small memory. That's something most of us have, either
from actually doing it, or from being interested in it.
paul