On 9/14/21 10:10 AM, Michael Nolan wrote:
I started programming in 1967, and over the last 50+ years I've
programmed in more languages than I would want to list. I spent a
decade writing in FORTRAN on a GA 18/30 (essentially a clone of the
IBM 1130) with limited memory space, so you had to write EFFICIENT
code, something that is a bit of a lost art these days. I also spent
a decade writing in COBOL.
I've not found many tasks that I couldn't find a way to write in
whatever language I had available to write it in. There may be bad (or
at least inefficient) languages, but there are lots of bad programmers.
--
Mike Nolan
htf...@gmail.com <mailto:htf...@gmail.com>
OK, I'm maybe responsible for this thread turning into a diatribe. I
shouted at OP 'cause he shouted at us. My mistake, and I apologize.
I'm probably closer to Mike's "bad programmers" than I would care to
admit but fully believe software is a "people problem" more than most of
us realize.
