On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:07:50 -0000, "Dave Wade" <dave.g4ugm@...>
wrote:
<< let me fix this>>
Folks,
Well for a long time we bashed, bent stretched and squished FORTRAN
into various distortions because we had no other language. Even the
folks behind ¡°C¡± and Unix recognized this and produced RATFOR for
those of us stuck with FORTRAN.
I use to think that the best programming language is, first of all,
the one that is available. If more than one is available, the better
is the one that:
1- Gets the work done in an useful way.
2- I am more familiar with.
Once I was in a field operation (199x, no net, no telephony, and
hours flight away from any civilization) and had the need to have a
program just to compare two CSV files. About 15 columns and 200 lines.
The only available language was the ms-basic available in a Windows
<something>. In 15 minutes I had a first program that were doing in
two seconds what people was doing in almost one hour. And making
mistakes doing that.
Cheers!
Roxo
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