Re: Programming Languages (WAS: Re: [opensuse] Back to 10.3 )

Kai Ponte wrote:
FORTRAN is for pipe-stress freaks and crystalography weenies.


Heh - I know a few fortran old-folgies.
That was my first real programming language, though I don't use it
any more. One of my coworkers is still a big fan of it. You can
call him what you want but his programming skills are amazing.
About 2 years ago I was working with a few others trying to solve
a problem with one of our programs. The programmer was trying
to blame the user and didn't want to mess with it because it was
written years ago by someone else. This Fortran guy was one of
the users. He asked me if I could get him the Ada source so he
could investigate himself. In one evening he figured out the
problem and told the Ada programmer how to fix it. The Fortran
user wasn't even an Ada programmer.

When searching on "linux development", you find the hard-core weenies who write and think in C/C++ because they're kernel or interface developers.
I have used C/C++ for 12 years but still don't feel like I am an
expert. I have made several attempts to learn GTK and Qt in the
past but only recently I have finally learned GTK well enough to
actually produce a program that works. I am very happy with it.
If I can do it, then I would have to say that GTK is a good option
to consider.

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