I love FORTRAN language and as days go by my love increase.
For the last 50 years this language has been supporting the engineering and computational communities.
This language is rich in history and every great engineer and scientist that you know of will have used this language. such is a legacy of this language..
So when I find something interesting about this language, I don't miss that opportunity to showcase this here.
*God is Real, unless declared Integer. J. Allan Toogood, FORTRAN programmer.
*FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. -Edsger Dijkstra, circa 1970.
*"The sooner the world forgets that FORTRAN ever existed, the better." (imputed to Joseph Weizenbaum)
*"95 percent of the people who programmed in the early years would never have done it without Fortran." - Ken Thompson, circa 2005
*"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." -Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
*"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice." -Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual
*"People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings - they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for example." -Art of PROLOG, Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, MIT Press
*"Warning: Go directly to Jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200." - Easter egg in the SDS/Xerox Sigma 7 FORTRAN compiler, when the statement GO TO JAIL was encountered. The message is from a Chance card in Monopoly.
*"A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup or mustard." - a fortune cookie from the Unix program fortune.
*"The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language." - Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Ed Post, 1982
source: http://knol.google.com/k/fortran#
So when I find something interesting about this language, I don't miss that opportunity to showcase this here.
*God is Real, unless declared Integer. J. Allan Toogood, FORTRAN programmer.
*FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. -Edsger Dijkstra, circa 1970.
*"The sooner the world forgets that FORTRAN ever existed, the better." (imputed to Joseph Weizenbaum)
*"95 percent of the people who programmed in the early years would never have done it without Fortran." - Ken Thompson, circa 2005
*"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." -Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
*"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice." -Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual
*"People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings - they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for example." -Art of PROLOG, Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, MIT Press
*"Warning: Go directly to Jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200." - Easter egg in the SDS/Xerox Sigma 7 FORTRAN compiler, when the statement GO TO JAIL was encountered. The message is from a Chance card in Monopoly.
*"A computer without COBOL and FORTRAN is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup or mustard." - a fortune cookie from the Unix program fortune.
*"The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language." - Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Ed Post, 1982
source: http://knol.google.com/k/fortran#
