Anyone familiar with fortran?

[XDguy]

Our options are fortran and c, my advisor told me that mechanical/civil take fortran. i wish o would have taken c now.

 

[aard3]

I would have advised C, would have helped you more if you end up using Matlab. I have to say though, I have a couple friends that went to work for major defense contractors, and at least one of them was doing fortran programming for them... so people still do use it!

Aaron

 

[herohog]

I just installed the compiler and am browsing the Manual and will play with it a little just for S&G's...

 

[XD-GEM]

I took FORTRAN on a lark as an elective at Loyola in about 1979. The class moved so slow, I asked the teacher if I could work ahead on my own. I finished the enire semester in about a month and a half. The teacher tried to get me to change my major, but I really only took it for fun. Of course that WAS back when the program had to be typed one line at a time on punch cards, then turned in to the computer center and then you waited a day for them to run it before you could debug.

I taught myself some other programming languages along the way, but I haven't needed to use it in the last 15 years.

The biggest hurdle is the flowcharting. Once you get the logic laid out, the translation is rather straightforward, as I recall.

 

[texanx5]

I'd thought C as well. I took Fortran, APL, Basic had several times that I used Basic since college but not used the others since college so probably wouldn't be much help but could try.

 

[lsufan1971]

This may help!!

 

[herohog]

I am about ½ way through figuring it out for him. I SHOULD have it done by tomorrow evening.

 

[Guate_shooter]

C++ was the shitzy, much better than pascal.

 

[my-rifle]

What ******* makes poor sods learn FORTRAN? That is completely inexcusable. Here's my bitch: Learning software (or engineering) in today's market is horrendously complex, and any ******* who makes anyone waste a precious semester on FORTRAN is like Tony Lopez, the COSC dept head at Loyola in 1981 who made us learn how to write sorts - in COBOL!

Teachers who do crap like that are incompetent, and are trying to hide it.

Back in '86 I dropped out to pursue the real world of software, and I never looked back. I despise ticket-punching turds like that who waste your life in order to conceal their own ignorance.

/rant off.

By the way, C is entirely too complex. VB is just as fast for 90% of applications, and it's a hell of a lot easier to use. The overwhelming majority of latency n software is in database access, so compiled language speed is generally irrelevant.

herohog, you are OK in my book.

 

[XDguy]

Herohog is more than ok. He has been busting his ass helping me out and hasn't called me a dumbass once!

Lol at lsufan, we had a computer just like that 23 years ago or so. Me and my cousin used to fart around on it and think we could hack into the government. (We were 7 years old)

 

[herohog]

The reason I am helping in (ugh) Fortran is because, once you reach a certain level, a programming language is a programming language is a programming language with the real differences being Syntax. Of course you can't compare OOP/WYSIWYG with Top-down languages like Fortran/Cobol etc.. But they ALL still have their similarities logic-wise (more or less).

Goodnight guys, I'm done for a bit then I gotta meet some darn fool in Natchitoches to give him a 10/22 at 1:00pm!

PS: My specialty was with Progress 4GL and WebSpeed interfacing business systems with the Internet and building GUI user applications and I also made a TON of functions and procedures so our code could be as portable as possible.

 

[XD-GEM]

Lol at lsufan, we had a computer just like that 23 years ago or so. Me and my cousin used to fart around on it and think we could hack into the government. (We were 7 years old)

"How about a nice game of chess?"

 

[XDguy]

I started playing chess around then but didnt star t on the computer until we that speed demon 486