Spss, Geeezs I thought that was only a vermin program on PC's I remember SPSSX for the VAX's (old 11/XXX series) --- I guess my gray hair is showing:-) --- Anyway it feels good to hear that F isn't dead. I know this is mainly a C site (well okay Unix -- C) and I know I will probably really get slammed at this post, but I feel I must share my experiences with F. I started with F at the ripe age of around 30 (sorry haven't always been a geek -- Used to be medical), anyway my first job was with an old LSI and a bunch of old PDP 11/02's all of these were only able to be p* by either macro (okay for those of the younger generation -- assembler) and/or F* that was ported to these machines. The one thing I still Love about F* is how compact the code was (I haven't tried 77, 90/95 yet) but tell me this on the "New" compilers.. If memory wasn't so cheap (like it wasn't 15 yrs ago) could you make a decent program including the bootstrap (roughly 20 - 30K lines of code) and after complining have it fit on an old sssd 8" or even a newer sssd 5.25??? I think not. I really hate the new compliers that just to printf your name to the screen it takes 3gb to compile -- Yeah I'm being a little outlandish, but you know what I mean... How many of your really remember the daze of no memory or very little e.g., how about the old PDP's. the old ANALOG HP's, the not so old IBM mini's/mainframes (Those of you that know what I'm talking about please laugh out loud now!! -- Those that don't even know what I'm talking about.... go back to your perl script.)
I've said what I had to say.... and to take from a real old article Which if any of you still have it hanging around I would love to have a copy(Real Programmers Don't Eat Ciche (sp))FORTRAN RULES!!!
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Spss, Geeezs I thought that was only a vermin program on PC's I remember SPSSX for the VAX's (old 11/XXX series) --- I guess my gray hair is showing :-) --- Anyway it feels good to hear that F isn't dead. I know this is mainly a C site (well okay Unix -- C) and I know I will probably really get slammed at this post, but I feel I must share my experiences with F. I started with F at the ripe age of around 30 (sorry haven't always been a geek -- Used to be medical), anyway my first job was with an old LSI and a bunch of old PDP 11/02's all of these were only able to be p* by either macro (okay for those of the younger generation -- assembler) and/or F* that was ported to these machines. The one thing I still Love about F* is how compact the code was (I haven't tried 77, 90/95 yet) but tell me this on the "New" compilers.. If memory wasn't so cheap (like it wasn't 15 yrs ago) could you make a decent program including the bootstrap (roughly 20 - 30K lines of code) and after complining have it fit on an old sssd 8" or even a newer sssd 5.25??? I think not. I really hate the new compliers that just to printf your name to the screen it takes 3gb to compile -- Yeah I'm being a little outlandish, but you know what I mean... How many of your really remember the daze of no memory or very little e.g., how about the old PDP's. the old ANALOG HP's, the not so old IBM mini's/mainframes (Those of you that know what I'm talking about please laugh out loud now!! -- Those that don't even know what I'm talking about .... go back to your perl script.)
I've said what I had to say.... and to take from a real old article Which if any of you still have it hanging around I would love to have a copy(Real Programmers Don't Eat Ciche (sp))FORTRAN RULES!!!