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From: u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael Bednarek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Are VMS and VAX synonymous (Was: Re: VMS games)
Message-ID: <1331@murdu.OZ>
Date: 10 Dec 87 00:27:19 GMT
References: <39rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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In article <39rrk@byuvax.bitnet> rrk@byuvax.bitnet writes:
>It is obvious that VMS is the operating system of the VAX just as DOS isthe
>operating system of the PC.
> [...]
>And is Fortran the language of VMS? [...]
>                                                            MACRO32 is the
>only language found on all VMS VAX's.  Certainly Universities will cling
>to Fortran.  It was there when the professors went to school.  I have never
>been at a non-university site that had fortran.
> [...]
>Fortran  and Cobol are a little like Latin and French.  They are both very
>established in certain environments, but I would never classify either one as
>being "The Language".


Hmm, I've never worked in a shop without Fortran (5 jobs in the last 18 years,
4 Market Research Institutes, 1 University).

Some quotes from "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL" by Ed Post:

         The easiest way to tell  a  Real  Programmer  from  the
    crowd  is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real
    Programmers use FORTRAN.  Quiche Eaters use PASCAL.

    *    Real Programmers do List Processing in FORTRAN.
    *    Real Programmers do String Manipulation in FORTRAN.
    *    Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it  at  all) in FORTRAN.
    *    Real Programmers do Artificial Intelligence programs in FORTRAN.

    If you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in  assembly  language.
    If  you  can't  do  it  in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.

    Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs
    in any language.



Michael Bednarek		
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