[DeTomaso] math formula help

[Will Kooiman]

I did Fortan in College too (with Watfiv on 3270's - never did punch cards).
I learned C in College, but it was just becoming popular.  Not many people
knew C back then (mid 80's).  Pascal was "the" language.  It was a great
teaching language, but it stinks for getting real work done.

I worked on VAX's at my first programming job (8650, 6320, 785, work
stations, and later Alphas).  We mostly used Pascal and Vax BASIC.  One
system was done in Fortran, but I didn't support it.  When we did a system
using an Oracle database, we switched to C (not C++).  C was much easier
than any of the other languages we had been using, so we gradually replaced
everything with C.  I still have a TK50 with all my old code on it.

These days, everyone has to program in Java.  I'm not a fan of Java.  It has
a lot going for it, but it has too many critical flaws.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Green
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:09 PM
To: Garth Rodericks; gow2 at rc-tech.net
Cc: DeTomaso Mail List
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] math formula help

Fortran was great, but most the engineers around me ended up getting seduced
by Matlab pseudo coding.  I never liked "C", seemed like it was written for
programmers and forced down the throats of engineers.
 
Ken

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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] math formula help
To: "Garth Rodericks" <garth_rodericks at yahoo.com>
Cc: "DeTomaso Mail List" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:53 PM


I think anyone older then me was doing Foretran.My brothers were, I just
missed it.
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> HA! I learned Fortran IV with Watfiv while in college, also using punch
> cards.
> One of the most important lesson we learned was to ALWAYS number your
> punch cards.
> You learned it once, and that was all it took! Fond memories!
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