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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language?
- In-Reply-To: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil's message of 5 Jan 93 12:55:44 GMT
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- <1993Jan4.201229.12073@newshost.lanl.gov> <29250@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 09:20:24
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- In article <29250@oasys.dt.navy.mil> roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth) writes:
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- In comp.lang.fortran, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
- >u (Gilbert Chew) writes:
- >|> that the C/C++ newsgroup seems to have about
- >|> 100 times the traffic of the FORTRAN newsgroup!
- >
- >If you actually look at those newsgroups, you will find that most of
- >the traffic consists of trivial questions and long discussions about
- >issues which *should be* well defined and easy to learn/use/describe
- >in any really well designed language. In other words, it's not clear
- >whether the volume of traffic in those groups is because of greater
- >popularity of the language or because of poorer design.
-
- A third possibility: the concepts of the language are new, and so the
- terms "easy to learn/use/describe" are not yet applicable. When we all
- understand what virtual methods, templates, overloading, private|protected|
- public, friend, class, etc. mean, *then* the issues will be well defined.
-
- Me, I'm just lurking on the C++ fora, tryina figure it out...
-
- Actually, the real reason is that FORTRAN programmers are a lot
- smarter than C programmers, who often don't even know how to use
- modern plumbing or pick out their clothes in the morning. Studies show
- that 72% of all C programmers have "severe social, if not sexual,
- problems, and few problem solving skills, but an abundance of problem
- causing skills." (from "Studies of Programmers: Laguage and Body
- Odour, is there a connection?" British Journal of the Social
- Sciences).
-
- Ed
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- Don't blame me, I voted against Amendment 2!
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- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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