On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:09:06 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > John Hasler wrote: > > > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s, > > Joe wrote: > > Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings? > > 212H Of course you don't do string processing in FORTRAN. It's for > problems which you can solve by representing everything as > homogeneous coordinates and then computing the result by one giant > matrix multiplication. > And, of course, there's the other extreme: "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully understand your application." Maybe not exactly word for word, I think it's from one of Leo Brodie's books on early Forth. Might be a quotation from Charles Moore. -- Joe
