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No, not at all, I'm saying if you had been a C programmer in the 90's you would have some perspective on some of the complaints and comments about python in 20
by Ensorceled 7y ago
No, not at all, I'm saying if you had been a C programmer in the 90's you would have some perspective on some of the complaints and comments about python in 2019.
- Sean1708 7y agoWhy are you complaining about C in the 90s? If you'd been using punchcards in the 50s you'd have some perspective on some of the complaints and comments about C in 1990.
- dboreham 7y agoAbacus in the 0000's...
- Ensorceled 7y agoI'm actually not complaining about C in the '90s, it was amazing compared to Fortran in the '80s. Funny story, my first co-op job (Fortran IV), my boss made me fix a bug using punch cards so I'd appreciate why the codebase wasn't as nice as it might be. THAT was prespective.
- Koshkin 7y agoFortran was designed for punch cards - sometimes you could even "write" new code by picking old cards from your desk drawer.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoFor what use case? for math and tech programming in the 90's I would have gone with Fortran.
- Ensorceled 7y agoFortran IV? But yeah, Fortran was the goto tool for mathematics, simulations, etc. for the same reason Python often is today: libraries and existing code. I had to convert a simulated annealing algorithm from Fortran to C in the '90s
- C1sc0cat 7y agoIn the 90's it would should been F77 or later if they where stuck on Fortran IV in the 90's I am not surprised Python was invented. Why did you convert the algorithm from Fortran to c seems a waste of time to me, unless it was a training exercise.