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Why 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
by Sean1708 7y ago
Why 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.