Re: bigloo

[Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>]

On 02-Aug-00, 05:26 (CDT), "David N. Welton" <davidw@linuxcare.com> wrote: 
> Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> > PS: No harm towards the French intended, just that INRA and the
> > other french research centers seem to have their own way of doing
> > things.
> 
> I think a lot of scientists write really ugly code.  I think
> nationality has less to do with it;-)

Early exposure to Fortran, from other engineers and scientists who also
had early exposure to Fortran, back in the days when the only control
structures where DO and the arithmetic GOTO.

Steve, an engineer who thinks he's overcome his initial programming
experience with FORTRAN IV.