On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:24:52 +0000, Tim Watts
wrote:

On 02/02/15 15:39, Dennis@home wrote:

FORTRAN is Ok, I learnt it while at primary school aged 9.
We had to hand punch cards and send them to IC to run the programs.

I don't like C or C++ even though I have had to use them.

I quite liked pl/m 86 (and RMX 86) when I used them.

ASM86 was OK.

Embedded SQL was so boring as is all database stuff that I worked on.

FORTRAN (77) was "good at maths".

That was about it IME. I learnt C at the first opportunity.

FORTRAN was ugly, limited structure, poor IO and generally horrid in so
many ways. But for a scientist, it was very solid, and got the job done.

My first serious programming language back in 1970. Needed to
calculate the seat/mile cost of an aircraft given the airframe and
engine characteristics. A few weeks using log tables and slide rules.
A one-off few weeks to learn Fortran. We had two IBM 1130s at our
disposal and if in a hurry could punch the cards and load the stack
ourselves. Oh - and that's engineer - not scientist.

Probably do it all in Excel with a bit of VBA now.

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AnthonyL