14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
2:18 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
This is actually not as hypothetical as it soiunds.
Of course not :) I'd like to think that anything I write stands a chance
of still being around in 30 years anyway; I'd say that longevity of code
should be one of the goals of any programmer. It's like all aspects of
good coding - think about it a little and you tend to end up adding it
in automatically without really thinking about it.
mess of features. By and large, if you write a
program in FORTRAN IV or
77, you can find a compiler for just about every machine ever made.
Or you can almost certainly find an emulator for that machine that'll
emulate something else that *will* run Fortran...
It's a long time since I've done any Fortran (and I didn't particularly
like it at the time :) but ISTR it being a pretty simple language to
parse - which makes rolling your own parser in x years not completely
out of the question...