Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

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Marshall  <marshall.spight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Jul 1, 7:40 am, hru...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Herman Rubin) wrote:
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>> I have programmed in Fortran, C, and assembler for
>> different machines.
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>Yes, those are sure good ones. Fond memories. Have
>you had a chance to work with any of the languages
>that have come out in the last 35 years? Some of them
>are quite good.

Fortran and C have both been revised much more recently than 35 years 
ago. Even the oldest Fortran you can easily find a compiler for, 
Fortran 77, is younger than that. It was made obsolete by Fortran 90, 
which was made obsolete by Fortran 95, which will have been made 
obsolete by Fortran 2003 when compilers catch up to the standard, and 
the Fortran standard committee is currently working on Fortran 2008. 
See comp.lang.fortran for more on that.

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