Really off topic now...
Ranjan Bagchi
ranjan_bagchi at yahoo.com
Wed May 10 16:40:32 UTC 2000
It is certainly interesting to read so much from
people who really grocked FORTRAN and the 60's era IBM
hardware.
In quite a few circles I qualify as a greybeard
because I compiled Mosaic from source and remember
when programmer jobs were hard to find ;)
Ranjan
--- Joshua Gargus <gargus at cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Yes, I realized that as I wrote the note (not to
> mention some of the Perl
> out there). It's a classic case of style over
> substance; I was unable to
> find a consise phrase that precisely conveyed the
> meaning "Thank goodness
> I was in diapers when the majority of those involved
> in mainstream language
> design thought was the way to do things".
>
> Oh, wait; do C++ and Java count as mainstream? They
> do? Oh. Nevermind.
>
> Joshua
>
>
> > Hmm, you are quite a skilled typist for being so
> young. Code, just like
> > below, is still being written daily, at least in
> the astrophysics world.
> > I joke not... It's truly mind bending at times.
> The project I work on
> > caused howls of anger by requiring F90 for all
> fortran code.
> >
> > Plus Fortran 2002 will be OO, accourding to
> rumors. My fingers
> > cringe at the thought.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > bruce
> >
> > Joshua Gargus <gargus at cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> > > Wow! Thank goodness I was in diapers when
> people were writing code
> > > like that. Although hopefully in 30 years, the
> young 'uns will be
> > > saying the same thing about that archaic Squeak
> ;-)
> > >
> > > Joshua
>
>
>
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