Re: [Nolug] Meeting next week: anatomy of a web application

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:15:45PM -0500, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> I vote FORTRAN. Can we make sure we use punch cards as well?

Don't knock FORTRAN. It is still very widely used in many circles.
Check out Fortress - it's supposed to be the new Fortran. And guess
what - it's functional :)

And when I write web apps, I prefer to use Bourne shell scripts.

  http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCgiShellScript.html

But there's no reason you can't use FORTRAN :)..

Brett

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> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On 2009-05-14 13:07, Chris Jones wrote:
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> >> a couple of web applications that he's been working on lately
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> > How about a durable language like COBOL or FORTRAN? ?50+ years old and still
> > in wide use...
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