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Sip from the Firehose (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The story of Turbo Pascal version 1.0 cannot be written without writing about Nicklaus Wirth and the road to the Pascal programming language. How did Pascal arrive on the scene in the computing industry? Programming in the early years was dominated by the Fortran, COBOL, Assembler, and Algol languages. As programs grew larger ...
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Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Windows/Mac/Linux: The programming language that probably introduced more people to infinite loops than any other, Microsoft BASIC 6502 for the Commodore 64, is now available as a scripting language for many modern machines. What might you use it for? Who cares! Fortran and Cobol are still in use today, so surely some menial but dignified work could be found for a former star finally rediscovered,...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
> one of computer programming’s most widely used languages.I highly doubt that a language that has only been around for a few years is the most “widely” used computer language. Cobol, fortran, or standard C , maybe.
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I don’t remember exactly when I learned recursion. If I recall correctly, and I could be wrong after almost 35 years, the version of FORTRAN that was my first programming language didn’t even support recursive subroutine calls. But somewhere along the line I did learn it. While I admit that I had a hard time grasping it at first I thought it was pretty cool once I did. There is no question that it...
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Buenos Aires in english (Free subscription) | 05/09/2007
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. -- C.A.R. Hoare Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it. -- Alan Perlis If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. -- Richard Pattis The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. -- Arthur Koestler The string...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
HOUSTON, TX (MARKET WIRE) Visual Numerics, Inc., celebrating 36 years of producing advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, announced today that the IMSL(TM) C Numerical Library version 6.0 and IMSL(TM) Fortran Numerical Library version 5.0 have been released for Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST(TM) 500 series servers for high performance computing. Together, the IMSL Numerical Libraries will leverage...
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Market Wire - Computers and Software (Free subscription) | 04/25/2007
HOUSTON, TX (MARKET WIRE) Visual Numerics, Inc., a leading producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, today honored "Math Awareness Month" by offering a low-cost Introductory Department License Special to faculty and academic researchers for its IMSL(R) Numerical Libraries and PV-WAVE(R) visualization software. The program, which guarantees pricing for three years, encourages...
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 03/28/2007
Fortran was popular for the same reason starving people value shoe leather
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taw's blog (Free subscription) | 03/22/2007
We all agree with Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame when he says that there are only two kinds of languages - those that nobody uses and those that everybody bitches about. So let's ask Google what are the most popular languages nowadays: "Java sucks" 33,200 "PHP sucks" 29,100 "C++ sucks" 14,100 "C sucks" 12,800 "Perl sucks" 9,170 "Cobol sucks" 1,010 "Ada sucks" 961 "Python sucks" 694 "Scheme sucks" 631...
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The Future Place Blog (Free subscription) | 03/21/2007
Many sites (e.g Wired) have been carrying stores about the death of John Backus, the person who led the team that developed the computing language Fortran. Younger readers are probably wondering what Fortran was. In the 1960s and early 70s most computer programs were written in Cobol if they were business applications or Fortran if they were ‘scientific’, a term...
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 03/20/2007
A flaw within Sun's Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) platform has Oracle teaming up with Sun on a bug-killing mission.
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Supercomputing Online (Free subscription) | 03/19/2007
DESCRIPTION: The User Services Consultant provides front-line support to the national community of computational science researchers who use high performance computing (HPC) resources at SDSC.
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Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 03/01/2007
My kids laugh when they hear me play this song . But, I really do like it. :-) Click the gif to play the mp3 (the gif was produced with Zach Beane's Minifesto application [which was written in Lisp with his SKIPPY library]). Here are the lyrics if you want to sing along: I was taught assembler in my second year of school. It's kinda like construction work - with a toothpick for a tool. So when I made...
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The Technology blog (Free subscription) | 02/28/2007
Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog is covering a real horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program? It seems that, at least in the US, "199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't...
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Planck's Constant (Free subscription) | 02/19/2007
So when I first heard that Britney had shaved it all off I said that I already saw her without panties on and that was old news. "No, you idiot," my wife says, "she shaved the top of her head!" Oh. Well, I can understand that. In 1984 I discovered two earth-shaking things:
