Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You guys are all amateurs! Anyone know APL? ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Johnny Deadman Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:32 PM To: LUG Subject: Re: [Leica] One of those annoying "Which would youchoose"posts.... on 1/24/01 12:31 AM, Robert Appleby at robert.appleby@tin.it wrote: > Try assembly language and see what real programming is all about. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt >>>>>>> > > Try machine code matey! This IS getting ridiculous but machine code is EASY compared to -- a) translating an entire scientific subroutine library from Algol into Fortran 77 (including recursive routines -- agh!). This was during my brief stint as a rocket scientist (true). b) programming a prolog compiler yes, I was that man... - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com