In article <871tw0s2kl....@elektro.pacujo.net>, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl>: > > > Given that Fortran is here for almost 60 years and lot of effort has > > been spent to keep it backwards compatible (AFAIK), I wouldn't hold my > > breath. > > I have seen a glimpse of the so-called scientific computing and Fortran > programming. I can't help but think that Fortran is successful with > people who don't know how to program and don't care. > > That's fine. If I were to build a cyclotron, I bet the Fortran coders > would smile at my clumsy efforts. It is fine. Computers are tools. The sign of a good tool is that you can pick it up and use it without having to read the instruction manual. I can jump into pretty much any car, start the engine, and drive it, without any learning curve. There's a lot of complicated organic chemistry and thermodynamics going on inside the engine's combustion chambers, but I don't need to know any of that to make use of the tool. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
