I need to find a FORTRAN compiler or app or whatever that can run on my Macs. I loved programming in it.
I got really good at FORTRAN back in college. One summer at nasa one of the (women) programmers would sit with me as I tried to understand error dumps. She showed me how to trace memory locations where the program bombed and to trace that back to lines of code or particular calculations and values. It made debugging soooo easy. I had never seen any manual that went into that but she was a whiz at it. I became a go-to guy since I could look at a dump and figure out in about 30seconds where it gorked. I wish these damn cars were so easy!!! --FT Sent from iPhone > On Feb 10, 2020, at 12:41 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > >> The office I was given when I worked at JPL the summer after my junior >> year at Caltech had a copy of the Fortran manual on the bookshelf. I >> decided to learn Fortran, since in my freshman year I had to use a program >> called CITran (an adaptation of Fortran) to analyze physics lab >> experiments. It had a short manual and was easy to use. So, I picked up >> the Fortran manual and started reading. A couple of days later, I put it >> back on the shelf and commented, "You can't learn Fortran that way." > > I have always found that one learns a programming language by writing > programs in it. The manuals are for reference, not for reading like a > book. Even the books that are meant to teach the language (with > examples, etc.) aren't much good if you just read them. You need to > write the code, debug your mistakes, etc. > > After a while when you understand abstract programming concepts, you can > read about a new language and understand how its features work and when > to use them. But you still need to write code in that language to really > learn it. > > Allan > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
