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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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Gmail makes it easy to switch mail accounts: Will it matter?

Gmail makes it easy to switch mail accounts: Will it matter?Google FAIL!"And why would I want all my email on one provider?Google?that appears to be sucking wind at this very moment?" Indeed, this hits home quite poignantly right now. This is welcome news for those that want to switch...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

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

Spirit Parser Framework 1.2.8 (Windows)

Spirit is an object oriented recursive descent parser generator framework implemented using template meta-programming techniques. Expression templates allow us to approximate the syntax of Extended Backus Normal Form EBNF completely in C++. Parser objects are composed through operator overloading and the result is a backtracking LLinf parser that is capable...

Tags: Grammar, Microsoft Windows, C++, Spirit, Parser Object, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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