[DeTomaso] math formula help

[Thomas Tornblom]

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Will Kooiman skrev:
> 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
> 
> --- On Thu, 11/5/09, gow2 at rc-tech.net <gow2 at rc-tech.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: gow2 at rc-tech.net <gow2 at rc-tech.net>
> 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.
>>
>> 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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