A FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language

Post #52,445 by tuberculosis 9/20/02 6:24:34 AM Reply	A FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language EZBoard was more about management issues. I know, you're joking, but not everybody can see that. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
Post #52,446 by wharris2 9/20/02 6:59:13 AM Reply	Damn, that's pretty deep! a C programmer can write C in fortran or pascal or.... a C++ programmer can wite C++ in delphi a Pascal programmer can write Pscal in C++ or Java An XXX programmer can write XXX in yyyyyyy. The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #52,447 by CRConrad 9/20/02 8:29:14 AM Reply	About that second line, I have a couple of suggestions... Da Beard (but not any more, we hear? Sis got over the heart attack yet?) writes: a C++ programmer can wite C++ in delphi 1: Yeah, sure -- just use short and cryptic names, and mess up your inheritance structure as much as possible! a C++ programmer can wite C++ in delphi 2: Of course he could -- but why not just use C++ Builder? :-) Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #52,466 by neelk 9/20/02 10:55:08 AM Reply	Re: Damn, that's pretty deep! An XXX programmer can write XXX in yyyyyyy. That's not always true. Eg, you can't write Lisp in C, because it's strictly more expressive than C -- it would be easier to implement a Lisp in C, and then use that.
Post #52,686 by ben_tilly 9/22/02 5:07:36 PM Reply	Partially disagree A Lisp programmer working in C might feel the constraints of the language. But their style would still show the Lisp influence, and they would be more likely to, for instance, take a heavily recursive solution or reach for pointers to functions than a person raised on C would. They just conceive of things differently. However it is easier to program like you are in another language when all of that other language's features are supported in the one that you have. Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #52,473 by tuberculosis 9/20/02 11:07:32 AM Reply	Left out the qualification "An XXX programmer can write XXX in yyyyyyy." You need to add "where XXX is more primitive than yyyyyyyy". I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
Post #52,450 by admin 9/20/02 8:59:28 AM Reply	Yep I worked with an economist who was taught FORTRAN in school, and self-taught C. His C had lots and lots of arrays and numbered variables. A few main routines. Single depth structs, etc. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #52,966 by static 9/24/02 7:06:49 AM Reply	Likewise. I once knew a guy who programmed everything like it was COBOL. I happened to see the effect in QuickBASIC, but I can imagine the effect in something like C... Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

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