On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Scott Loveless wrote: > On 1/26/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: > > > > > On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. > > >> > > > > > > Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant > > > roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it > > > introduced and its too bad that it wasnt adopted by other languages, > > > i.e. lambda is beautiful. > > > > Ok, geeky trivia time ... which came first, LISP or FORTRAN? And no > > peeking at google.com... ;-) > > > What is FORTRAN, Alex? > > BTW, as much as most hate it, I rather like FORTRAN. "If you can't do > it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in > assembly language, it isn't worth doing." Please see: > http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
Not bad, albeit a bit dated. I note, in particular, the throwaway line about nobody having found a use for Computer Graphics. Personally I always preferred the bumper-sticker slogan: "Real Programmers can write FORTRAN in any language" (sometimes seen with "assembly code" instead of "FORTRAN") -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
