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- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it All
- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it AllI still use FORTRANin my own and licensed apps. Almost all of the software used to design, synthesize and analyze optical systems is written in FORTRAN. Nowadays, they have nice C/C++ GUIs wrapped around them, but under...
- Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, OOA/OOD/OOP, Development tools, desktop, Fortran, Smalltalk, Backus
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
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- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Programming Languages
- Programming LanguagesLanguage and much more ..." John Backus died last week"May he rest in peace. My condolences.Your text is really good Murph!Languages and the evolution of language adoption is something really complex.In the computer word as well as in the "real" World.I really can not go back to Latin and...
- Tags: Programming languages, programming language, Java, Murph, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Programming Languages
- blot; forms(M,6,N); for (i=0;i < N; i++) { (-~i)+.x M;} MOVE A{[{i}*..]& is M} TO N Doesnt make sense? Try this: With sobs for his job, with tears for his toil, with horror for his...
- Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, programming language, Fortran, James Joyce, John Backus, programming
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Hats off to the father of FORTRAN
- The headline reads John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies. May he rest in peace. FORTRAN, short for "formula translator", was developed in 1957 and fifty years later, it is still of immeasurable value to researchers at universities all over the world. Today, we think of Education...
- Tags: Programming languages, Fortran, computer
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it All
- When I read this morning the obituary of John Backus, one of the key creators of FORTRAN, I was surprised to learn that this venerable language was born in the middle of the Eisenhower administration, which makes it 50 years old and shows us all how much our industry is...
- Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, desktop, Fortran, John Backus
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- IBM says, you don't need no operating system
- IBM says, you don't need no operating systemThat's not what I understood..That's what IBM is saying with its Open Client Offering. We will let you run Windows applications, Linux applications and very soon Macintosh applications in a single, seamless environment....Granted it is a press release and so real meat is...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, consulting, OS independence, IBM Corp., operating system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- What, no 5GLs?
- If C (circa 1973) is the prototypical third generation language and we had undisputed fourth generation languages as early as 1982, why dont we have a wide variety of 5th or even 6th generation languages today. Did progress stop? Heres how IEEE Software Engineering standard 610.12-1990: ( subscription...
- Tags: generation language
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- YouTube a vibrant political tool
- Politics is about making your opponents look bad. Nothing does it so well as an embarrassing video. Think Dukakis in the tank or Kerry windsurfing. Well, YouTube is a godsend to the political operative on the lookout for partisan humiliation. The latest YouTube video making the rounds is...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Secure Blade PC Solutions Save Money and Help Save Lives at Backus Hospital
- William. W. Backus Hospital chose the ClearCube solution because it is secure in high traffic areas, non-intrusive at the patient bedside, considerate of sterilization issues, and compatible with both the hospital's PACS system as well as its Health Care Information System HCIS. ClearCube has been installed in OR and patient...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, PC, Blade, Blade PC, ClearCube Technology, Healthcare
- White papers 2005-02-01
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