Nice to see you got away with that. I bet the person managing the money (and by default the program) thought it would be brilliant to incorporate the project to his flagship project of standardizing the code of the institution using a language that others, programmers or not, would find more homey.
It just makes more business sense they say. I guess there is not arguing when it comes to bread and butter, peanut butter that is. On the other hand, I believe it is possible to write a masterwork using Fortran or any language for that matter, one just need to work on the design more carefully. In my humble unqualified opinion, modern languages are hardly anything more than tools to help (force) organize source code better, not a replacement of a well designed application. A legacy structured programming language and the extensive use of Abstract Data Types could make heads turn easily, not just any head though. Alvaro Zuniga On Friday 02 May 2008 09:27:39 Fernando Vilas wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008 09:14:18 Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > > "and aninterest in scientific programming" > > > > What does this mean? Most know or be willing to master Fortran and > > possibly nothing else but fortran? > > > > AZ > > Eh, it could be worse. I spent a few years in undergrad translating > Fortran spaghetti code into slightly more readable VB6, with spiffy graphs. > The languages were a requirement of the project. Eventually, I gave up on > the translation project and started with the same source data, and > reimplemented the algorithms. Much easier, in the end. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
