On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Michael Small wrote: > > I told this joke to a co-worker just now and it spurred the > question of whether anyone's ever written a web site using > fortran. Anyone know an example or if it's even possible?
I haven't seen it done, but it seems absolutely feasible. (Especially for CGI style web development. The server takes the request and forks off the Fortran executable.) The system that really scares me is Hitatchi's CobolScript. A few years ago, a co-worker and I came across an ad for it. (As we'd see odd Web development technologies, we'd make a note of them, and try to out do each other for the most ridiculous software stack we could. The usual response to this running joke was "That's really cool and innovative, but we're an APL shop.") CobolScript is a COBOL interpreter written as a Windows COM object for embedding into ASP or elsewhere. (It could probably also be used for MS-Office and similar things that use the COM scripting interface, similar to how ActiveState's PerlCtl can be used.) <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/7075/19084/ 00882363.pdf> The joke wound up being on me, though. In some sort of stroke of cosmic irony, the co-worker and I went our separate ways and I eventually became a team lead for a bunch of ex-COBOL programmers writing Perl for a financial company that uses Windows as their production systems. (well, the perl on Windows. Most of the existing COBOL pieces run on VMS) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
