.... I take it that you're opposed to progress, Giles? I can just imagine someone like you, after devising the 128 character ASCII character set, being asked by some oriental person "What about our lanugage, which has thousands of symbols?", responding with "Live with it". No, I *like* progress. I like it alot. That's why I embrace signed zeros. It's also why I'd oppose the ...

...I'm sorry but worried or anxious also doesn't actually exist either but is a word to describe how someone feels, so that you understand what they are saying. What are we supposed to use sign lanugage now? Your effort to take the word stress and rip is apart is, well, a pretty petty and stupid arguement. If you assert the existence of something you have to say what...

...> I'm sorry but worried or anxious also doesn't actually exist either but is a word to describe how someone feels, so that you understand what they are saying. What are we supposed to use sign lanugage now? Your effort to take the word stress and rip is apart is, well, a pretty petty and stupid arguement. But "worried" is not also a noun. "Anxious" is not also a noun. It is not...

... I'm sorry but worried or anxious also doesn't actually exist either but is a word to describe how someone feels, so that you understand what they are saying. What are we supposed to use sign lanugage now? Your effort to take the word stress and rip is apart is, well, a pretty petty and stupid arguement. If you assert the existence of something you have to say what it ...

... effort. I'm sorry but worried or anxious also doesn't actually exist either but is a word to describe how someone feels, so that you understand what they are saying. What are we supposed to use sign lanugage now? Your effort to take the word stress and rip is apart is, well, a pretty petty and stupid arguement. If you assert the existence of something you have to say what it is by...

....net> wrote: [ snip ] Bill Gates spotted the software market future and IBM didn't; but the costs of using Fortran for any scientific work are becoming ridiculous. <snip> What lanugage do you think scientists use instead of FORTRAN? Belatedly chiming in to add a data point: The scientist in the office next to mine (well, I think I can call him that even though he...

... in another language. Ouch. What was the justification for that policy? And at what university? Remember that Charles is an auld fart. My best guesses are: 1. That's the only lanugage the advisors knew or 2. Interdeparmental politics (a.k.a budgeting games) required that FORTRAN to be used for past and future expenditures. Maybe I was just lucky...but my MS thesis (a ...

... wrote: At DECUS, one of my first questions to a customer who wanted to chat with me was his favorite programming lanugague. Then I could talk about OS and development details using that lanugages concepts. It's difficult to talk about tech to somebody who has never used your tools. That's what Xerox discovered. It was like trying to describe BSD style job control to people who ...

...was done in another language. Ouch. What was the justification for that policy? And at what university? Remember that Charles is an auld fart. My best guesses are: 1. That's the only lanugage the advisors knew or 2. Interdeparmental politics (a.k.a budgeting games) required that FORTRAN to be used for past and future expenditures. Maybe I was just lucky...but my MS thesis (a ...

... the language preference of only one Camb. Chemistry person: Fortran. I don't know what she uses now. At DECUS, one of my first questions to a customer who wanted to chat with me was his favorite programming lanugague. Then I could talk about OS and development details using that lanugages concepts. It's difficult to talk about tech to somebody who has never used your tools. /BAH