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Re: Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. SAYS MY Tk4- COOKIE JAR

 

My favorite languages are PL/X and REXX (nearly 20 years in IBM DB2 for z/OS Development). I have written a lot of programs in PL/I and in Assembler. A fair amount in C. There was one large programming project in Pascal on a VAX, a product in IBM/PC Pascal, and many Turbo Pascal programs for fun. Fortran and COBOL in college but none in the last 45+ years. Intrigued by LISP but never developed any sky -? especially amused when I learned it is an acronym for Lost of Infuriating Single Parenthesis.

Jim


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 9:36 AM Theodore M Rolle Jr <stercor@...> wrote:
The only language common to all programmers is profanity.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:07 AM Joe Monk <joemonk64@...> wrote:
Unfortunately, I have to ?disagree with this statement. During my application programming days, i was tasked with writing an application to read an IMS database and plot the facilities on the CALCOMP plotter attached to the mainframe.

The CALCOMP libraries were only available in FORTRAN. So, the main program was written in FORTRAN.

I wrote a COBOL subroutine to read the IMS database for the facilities (poles, transformers, capacitors, and circuit numbers).?

The inputs to the program were the corner square coordinates of the grid corner, and the scale. Greater scale = more facilities.

The app was a smash hit for the ?engineering folks.?

Joe

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 8:21 AM carlos feldman <carlfelster@...> wrote:

BUT..................

As an engineer and also a programmer, I love Fortran, PL/I, C, and even Quick Basic.

But I despise Java, Prolog, Lisp

?

What are your programming likes and dislikes ?



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