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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT |
He's very likely to have worked with FORTRAN, or less likely,
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| Authored by: Guil Rarey on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 06:37 PM EDT |
Someone should check for open source work by WHA (the judge's initials...)
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- Hmmm.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 08:41 AM EDT
- Hmmm.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:02 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 07:13 PM EDT |
FORTRAN and COBOL are mainframe languages. If he's been a lawyer, he probably
didn't have access to a university or industrial mainframe. I'm thinking PC
languages: BASIC, Pascal, C, maybe something more recent, like Python. Of
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| Authored by: xtifr on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 08:34 PM EDT |
If he was a math major in '67, and learned programming, chances are about
99% that he learned FORTRAN, which was the language used in math
departments from the time is was created up till very near the present.
Depending on the kinds of work he was doing, there's an outside chance he
learned some Lisp as well.
If he still has an interest in math, chances
are high he owns MatLab. My family lawyer for many years had a PhD in
Mathematics, and considered WordPerfect (for legal work) and MatLab to be his
two indispensable programs.
Beyond that, I couldn't really guess, but if
anything, it probably includes one or more of BASIC, Pascal, C, and (given his
interest in math) possibly R.
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| Authored by: Steve Martin on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 09:04 PM EDT |
A math major graduating in 1967
with a profession not
requiring tech savvy --
what languages is he likely to have
used?
I attended technical school in the early
seventies, at which I
was exposed to FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, RPG, and
assembler
on an IBM System/360, as well as BASIC and APL
while using my buddy's login on
an SDS Sigma 7. Given
these, it likely was FORTRAN (it might also have been
ALGOL). COBOL and RPG are business-oriented, PL/I is a dog
of a language that
I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, and
BASIC and APL were not that widely known
in the
mainframe days.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 10:16 PM EDT |
| Dartmouth College pioneered BASIC compiler on their timesharing system. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 04:14 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: bprice on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 05:01 AM EDT |
A math major graduating in 1967 with a profession not requiring tech
savvy -- what languages is he likely to have used?
It might be
interesting to note, despite the irrelevancy, that hizzonner's middle name is
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 05:30 AM EDT |
| It's his middle name! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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