Re: help me

[Kevin Mark <kevin@localhost>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 06:24, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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...
<snip>
I forgot that computer programmers do more that make wizbang web pages
and that people do stuff like study the 'billyons and billyon of stars'
{in carl sagan-like voice} and other cosmic stuff. Just a bit jaded by
the dot-bomb. Funny, I once took a class in fortran wayback when. 
-Kev