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< MGP> First Program in FORTRAN Runs (1954) today in history
> And that program is probably still running somewhere today
I know this probably makes me broken or something, but I have a fondness for Fortran. It was the first real (read: compiled) language I learned. I've completely forgotten it in the last 17 years. I still remember when I took a C++ based class. I was in horror. Operators should NEVER be overloaded. But that's a rant for another day. Today is Fortran's day.
< MGP> First Program in FORTRAN Runs (1954) today in history
> And that program is probably still running somewhere today
I know this probably makes me broken or something, but I have a fondness for Fortran. It was the first real (read: compiled) language I learned. I've completely forgotten it in the last 17 years. I still remember when I took a C++ based class. I was in horror. Operators should NEVER be overloaded. But that's a rant for another day. Today is Fortran's day.
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Fortran is very fast...
I worked on several applications where Visual Basic was used to build the Windows user interface, and a Fortran runtime package did the number crunching. Sweet...
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Yeah, a stupid idea that has gotten even stupider with time, as people realize how difficult it makes the code to understand.
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Vi sucks! Emacs rules!
I really think that Intel is much better than Apple!
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Flock of Seagulls was soooooooo much better than Blondie! :-)