Dr Wingnut

Day: November 5, 2008

  • Simplicity

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    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.H. L. Mencken

  • Making progress

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    In reading a post at Dr. Dobbs CodeTalk it mentioned that FORTRAN started with a character set of only 48 Characters.  And included a link to the Programmers Reference Manual for FORTRAN on the IBM 704 machine dated October 15, 1956.  In reading through the document it becomes apparent how far we’ve come… certainly nowhere…