14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
2:35 p.m.
>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> writes:
Chuck> So, here's my reasoning. What was the programming atmosphere
Chuck> like in 1975? ...
Chuck> All this time FORTRAN has survived. Still a great language
Chuck> for number crunching, it's withstood attempts by X3J3 to make
Chuck> it a completely opaque mess of features. By and large, if you
Chuck> write a program in FORTRAN IV or 77, you can find a compiler
Chuck> for just about every machine ever made.
So has RPG, by the way. My sister makes a very comfortable living
writing in that language.
paul