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On Thursday 23 June 2011 18:23:58 pk wrote: |
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> On 2011-06-22 19:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. |
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> > Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die |
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> > because people still programming in it are too lazy to learn a proper, |
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> > more modern language :-P |
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> It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain niche areas |
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> (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern" languages doesn't cut |
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> it... :-) |
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"FORmula TRANslator". it keeps your lights on, as likely as not. Last I |
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looked, electricity power grids were kept alive with fortran doing the |
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calculations. |
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Mind you, I am going back a little way. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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