Re: help me

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 04:36, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:59, mohamed roshdy wrote:
> > i wanna really to learn fortran and i am waiting for acourse or ebooks
> > on net plz write to me
> There are many better and newer languages to learn. (perl and c for
> example). And these have many sites for help. the linux GCC compiler
> suite does support fortran, so that part is covered. What is the reason
> you want to learn a not very popular langage? Just curious.

That's a damned snobby tone you're taking there.  Could it possibly
be that FORTRAN does some things better than C?  Could it ever do
matrix manipulations faster than Perl?

I won't even *touch* COBOL, which is a fine language, in the hands
of a competent programmer...

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