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Are you saying that python is good for the 90s? VB6 was good for the 90s. But that's not really relevant to what language to use now.


No, not at all, I'm saying if you had been a C programmer in the 90's you would have some perspective on some of the complaints and comments about python in 2019.


Why are you complaining about C in the 90s? If you'd been using punchcards in the 50s you'd have some perspective on some of the complaints and comments about C in 1990.


I'm actually not complaining about C in the '90s, it was amazing compared to Fortran in the '80s.

Funny story, my first co-op job (Fortran IV), my boss made me fix a bug using punch cards so I'd appreciate why the codebase wasn't as nice as it might be. THAT was prespective.


Fortran was designed for punch cards - sometimes you could even "write" new code by picking old cards from your desk drawer.


For what use case? for math and tech programming in the 90's I would have gone with Fortran.


Fortran IV? But yeah, Fortran was the goto tool for mathematics, simulations, etc. for the same reason Python often is today: libraries and existing code. I had to convert a simulated annealing algorithm from Fortran to C in the '90s


In the 90's it would should been F77 or later if they where stuck on Fortran IV in the 90's I am not surprised Python was invented.

Why did you convert the algorithm from Fortran to c seems a waste of time to me, unless it was a training exercise.


Abacus in the 0000's...




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