Subj : Re: Today in History - 1
To   : Mike Powell
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Tue Aug 08 2023 07:38 am

-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 MP> Fortran is one I never dabbled in.  In college it was "sold" as more
 MP> for engineers.  I did dable in PASCAL a little 30+ years ago.  BASIC
 MP> also, and equally as long ago.

 I started in FORTRAN first, tutored a class (where I got my handle...)
 and then Pascal and ANSI C. I remember a great book called "Numerical
 Recipes in FORTRAN" that was full of code snippets and flow charts for
 most analytics needs, it was like a "Cliff's Notes" for every FORTRAN
 text. Later on, they translated it to C, which seemed a much more
 cumbersome language for the kind of algorithms in the book.


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