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