Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:09:06 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Hasler wrote:
> > > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s,
>
> Joe wrote:
> > Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings?
>
> 212H Of course you don't do string processing in FORTRAN. It's for
> problems which you can solve by representing everything as
> homogeneous coordinates and then computing the result by one giant
> matrix multiplication.
>
And, of course, there's the other extreme:
"If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully
understand your application."
Maybe not exactly word for word, I think it's from one of Leo Brodie's
books on early Forth. Might be a quotation from Charles Moore.
--
Joe
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