26 Apr
2002
26 Apr
'02
6:06 a.m.
When you
opened the box with your COCO, what useful work would it do with the
$399 you had just spent? Could you write a letter? Could you write and
compile a Fortran program?
A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in ANY language.
There was a fairly good (even though Microsoft) BASIC interpreter in ROM.
A REAL programmer could write a FORTRAN program with it. 
26 Apr
26 Apr
6:46 a.m.
"Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:
My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his
observation)
that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...
10 C WHAT SUBSET IS THAT?
20 C MY GRIPE WITH PASCAL WAS THAT IT WAS ALL ONE PROGRAM
30 C EVERY FORTRAN AFTER II COULD HAVE MODULES DEFINED
40 C .NOR. COULD YOU EVER FIGURE OUT
50 C WHEN TO PUT A SEMI-COLEN .OR. .NOT. AT THE END OF A
60 C STATEMENT
100 STOP
4 May
4 May
6:57 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
"Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:
It could be argued that any language with line numbers is not a real
programming language, but merely, say, a beginner's all purpose symbolic
instruction code.
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My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his
observation)
that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...
10 C WHAT SUBSET IS THAT?
20 C MY GRIPE WITH PASCAL WAS THAT IT WAS ALL ONE PROGRAM
30 C EVERY FORTRAN AFTER II COULD HAVE MODULES DEFINED
40 C .NOR. COULD YOU EVER FIGURE OUT
50 C WHEN TO PUT A SEMI-COLEN .OR. .NOT. AT THE END OF A
60 C STATEMENT
100 STOP 
5 May
5 May
6:12 a.m.
Quothe Sellam Ismail, from writings of Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:57:07AM -0700:
It could be argued that any language with line numbers
is not a real
programming language, but merely, say, a beginner's all purpose symbolic
instruction code.
However, FORTRAN is a real language, and it's perfect for numerical
computations. Check out:
http://sax.ifctr.mi.cnr.it/~lucio/WWW/cgi-lib/
http://sax.ifctr.mi.cnr.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/fortran.html
...and, when you're ready to begin using FORTRAN for CGI scripts,
GOTO the following web page:
http://sax.ifctr.mi.cnr.it/~lucio/WWW/cgi-lib/
:-)
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