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

Yeah, and you could technically mow your grass with a scythe :)

(Just kidding around guys, kind of like how emacs is a really neat OS,
and the only thing it needs is a functional text editor)

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM, B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>> >>
>> >> a couple of web applications that he's been working on lately
>> >
>> > How about a durable language like COBOL or FORTRAN? ?50+ years old and still
>> > in wide use...
>> >
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