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On Monday 15 September 2014 13:02:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: |
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> > Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence |
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> > with "fortran". |
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> what is wrong with fortran? |
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Nothing. Especially if you still have an 80-hole card punch and reader lying |
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around :-) |
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> > Second, major generation/simulation packages are |
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> > moving on to c++. |
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> and that is better why? |
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Has your career not shown you that newer is /always/ better? I used forever to |
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have young Turks proposing new ways of doing things, and I'd ask why change? |
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What will be better? Not once did I get a good answer - but the "improvement" |
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was always made anyway and called a "modernisation". |
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> > What about Perl? |
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> it is not a language. It is evil incarnated. |
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Or if it were to be called a language, it would be a write-only language. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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