on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: > MHR wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell >> <centos at celestial.com> wrote: >> >>> Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, >>> but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a >>> bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working >>> that had been written on a system that use 7 character variable >>> names where standard FORTRAN only permitted 6 (it was amazing how >>> many of the variable names differed only in the 7th character). >>> While this would be relatively easy to deal with today, it was a >>> bitch when all programs were on 80-column punch cards. >>> >>> >> >> Okay, now you're officially old. >> >> (Like me.) >> >> mhr >> > Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole > fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much > bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big > event way back when. Then Fortran 4 came around! Be still my old heart! > > ENW When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were the languages of the future! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081024/4a3ab093/attachment-0004.sig>