Interesting read. I've been programming since the mid 70's (started with a 2650 and TI59). Graduated in Computer Science and mathematics in 1984, did Honours in Computer Science in 1985.
Fast forward decades and I completed a Masters in Astrophysics and a Ph.D. in astrophysics as well. Hate Fortran and Cobol, but can program in 15+ languages and am especially good at C. But, here's something interesting. I picked up R during my Ph.D. I'm now paid professionally to program in R. R is *different*. Every variable is a vector. Even if it's a million rows, a billion rows - that's fine. You have to think differently. Despite all my experience, this is now one of my favourite languages. Statisticians embraced R decades ago. Every statistical test is freely available. Need to do Allan variance? It's done. Need to do a Lomb-Scargle periodogram? Done. Combine that with publication quality plots as well. I think time-nuts should have a serious look at this language. It's available on all platforms for free. RStudio is what you need to look for. Jim On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 19:19, ew via time-nuts <time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > In the seventies at TI most software was done in the Equipment Group and > they did super stuff.We send emails globally and when I traveled I did it > with a Silent 700. Did performance reviews from Norway using rubber cups > and phone handset.Military group was an other story.. Lost our shirt on GPS > because we underestimated the software part 300K code. Was a wake up call > and I was asked to set up a department strictly for code development. Did > focus on management. Never in my professional life had an 8 to 5 job. Just > like Rick, Fortran 50 years ago and focus on the job at hand. Most my > professional life was ion management. After retirement fortunate to meet > Brook Shera and Richard Mc Corkle and still looking for team members to > fill their void.We have some exciting projectsBert Kehren > > In a message dated 10/2/2018 11:40:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, > hmur...@megapathdsl.net writes: > > > rich...@karlquist.com said:> At least for me. I took 1 course in Fortran > 50 years ago, and that was the> extent of my software education. During my > whole career, I have too busy> being well paid to design hardware, to have > any time left over to learn> software. After Fortran was over, there was > the Pascal fad, then the C fad,> etc, now I guess Python is the latest. > Never got involved in any of that. > Interesting. > All the hardware people I've worked with have been reasonably happy > working on software. That may be more common in the digital world. > As an example, most people write PAL code as logic equations rather than > schematics. > It would be interesting to compare the costs of hardware vs software for a > big chip project over time. > > > -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________time-nuts mailing list -- > time-n...@lists.febo.comTo unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.comand follow > the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.