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You mean COBOL? FORTRAN wasn't really about lowest common competence. Anyway, about this: > It’s in the interest of mainstream employers to treat programmers
by marcosdumay 2y ago
You mean COBOL? FORTRAN wasn't really about lowest common competence.
Anyway, about this:
> It’s in the interest of mainstream employers to treat programmers as a fungible resource.
It's in their interest to make programmers fungible. It's self-delusional to think they succeeded.
- sevensor 2y agoNo, I do mean FORTRAN. Massively lowered the bar. Not that COBOL didn’t, but it was in a different domain and slightly later as I understand it. Have you ever worked with properly old FORTRAN? Some of it is quite good, but some of it, well, it’s regrettable it was ever transferred off of paper tape.