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I always like reading about how people did things back when dinosaurs ruled the data center. Do you know of any web pages that detail this sort of thing?
by Sodel 15y ago
I always like reading about how people did things back when dinosaurs ruled the data center. Do you know of any web pages that detail this sort of thing?
- beagle3 15y agoNo, unfortunately. I'm close to 40, dinosaurish by HN/Reddit standards, but I learned Fortran mostly because back in the late 80s and early 90s essentially all numeric processing code was written either in Assembly or Fortran; and at a later stage, because I was the only one proficient in Fortran, I inherited lots of legacy code at work. Most people my age, even if they've been programming since age 9, haven't seen any Fortran unless they're doing physics or using LAPACK.
- true_religion 15y agoAs a 20something who has been unfortunately intimate with Fortran, I can see why people in the past would have been fanatical about C, and heck even talked about the virtues of diving into assembly rather than deal with Fortran.