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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