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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Programming
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:26:58 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <9301260253.AA28593@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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- In article <9301260253.AA28593@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, CTANSKI@ONONDAGA.BITNET (Chris Tanski) writes:
- >I am going to be taking a programming course next year and I want to know
- >which one to take. My options are: BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, and COBOL. I
- >want to be able to write programs on my VMS acct. so whichever programming
- >language is best for that is the one I want. Thanks and please reply directly
- >to ctanski@onondaga.bitnet.
-
- Depends on what you want out of the course.
- BASIC: Qualifies you to write programs for PC owners;
- Pascal: Similar to C, but with strong typing;
- FORTRAN: Good for scientific programming, but you're likely to
- learn very little about data structures; better than
- COBOL or BASIC, at least;
- C If you learn this one, you're going to learn a lot
- about how computers work. You'll learn about things
- like data storage and structures. It is, in my
- opinion, the best of the lot, if you really want to
- learn how to program.
- COBOL Take this one, by all means, if you want to spend the
- rest of your life writing payroll programs.
- Hope you can find someone willing to reply to you via e-mail, given that you
- can't be bothered to take the time to read the group.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-