[FRIAM] For the programmers amongst us

2010-05-11 Thread Robert Holmes
Discover the truth behind you favorite programming language -- R http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] For the programmers amongst us

2010-05-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
Beautiful! My favorite: It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote: Discover the truth behind you favorite programming language -- R

Re: [FRIAM] For the programmers amongst us

2010-05-11 Thread sarbajit roy
My favourite is 1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists. 1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] For the programmers amongst us

2010-05-11 Thread Steve Smith
My favorite: "It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie." Odd... I've never known a FORTRAN programmer to wear a tie of any color, though many of them I have known did have a pocket protector full of pens and mechanical pencils... On Tue, May 11, 2010 at

Re: [FRIAM] For the programmers amongst us

2010-05-11 Thread Saul Caganoff
Pocket protector would be a FLOOVEMAT. Mechanical pencil I'm guessing would be a SENDABORT. On 12 May 2010 03:49, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: My favorite: It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie. Odd... I've never known a FORTRAN programmer to wear a