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

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:42:02PM -0500, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> 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)

I love that joke about as much as I hate emacs.

:q!
Brett

>
> 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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