From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 17 2:40:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF1037B400 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0048.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.48] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16cOie-0004Uh-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:38:57 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6F8836.854BAC2F@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:38:46 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: aw1@stade.co.uk, "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Fortran (was Re: Why is Python slower on FreeBSD thanWindows?) References: <20020215145841.O33755-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3C6D22C2.268E6915@pythonemproject.com> <20020215145841.O33755-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20020216134025.01cfd980@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > Funny thing about Algol: When Algol-60 (which had some features that > neither FORTRAN nor C has, such as range and bounds checking) for > UNIVAC hardware was completed, scientists at Case Institute > of Technology (where I did my undergraduate degree) ported some old > government code over and tried to run it. The machine immediately > reported runtime errors. Variables were undefined; subscripts were > going out of bounds; the results that were produced if the errors > were ignored were virtually random. > > And now the punch line: the code they'd ported had been used in > the design of nuclear weapons. > > I trust neither FORTRAN nor C to this day. Who cares about that... did they work? 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message