Yes. And was doing the Watfiv variant on 386's in the late '80s for thermal transfer and Bernoulli flow calculations.FORTRAN?
SO, you programmed using punch cards?
Let me say that I tried programming with punch cards...FORTRAN?
SO, you programmed using punch cards?
At least by then, 4 years later, we were out of the punch card scene and I was in the first-ever class at Tech that required entering freshman to purchase their own private PC in order to be registered in the engineering college. Anyway, not only did I have to repeat every class that I had quit (and as a result, failed), I still had to take that damned FORTRAN class. And all the classes I had quit got averaged into my GPA as zeroes. So, I started with 15 hours of zeroes for a fabulous starting GPA of 0.0 and had to work up, while all the incoming freshman started at 4.0 and were working down. That was pretty disheartening, but I got at it, stuck with it, pulled through, and ultimately graduated with a 3.68 in major, which was all that really mattered. IDGAFF what my overall GPA was, cuz triple integrals and FORTRAN were not civil engineering courses and I never used either one of them ever again in my entire phuq'n life, even to this very day...
For me, it was a 360/30
My first job after college was programming in MICROBOL. Part COBOL, mostly assembler language.
Yea! And I have a ray gun!You people are nerds...
Nerds with guns. Very different from just nerds.You people are nerds...
Nerdy about guns too....
I do not wish I did not have one of dem!
Can attest. @sobo is one of the most intelligent people I know - I say that unironically - but he couldn't code his way out of a paper bag in BASIC if you gave him the first three lines. And it's a four line program.Don't even get me started about FORTRAN!!! Damn shiit almost kept me from graduating... 7 phuq'n times!
Failed it once on my first try at college...
Failed it again on my second try, and went into the out-of-sequence route...
Dropped it 4 more times when it became clear each time that I wasn't going to pass it...
Finally reached a "creative solution" with my prof in the final exam of my final quarter that let me squeak by with not too shabby of an outcome...
@Flopsweat, @solv3nt, @Xaevian, and a few others here will tell you how much I hate trying to make computers/software do what they're s'posed to do when they won't actually do it. I hate that kinda shiit with a burning passion. That damned FORTRAN class all those decades ago was the genesis of my seething hatred of computers and software that don't work when they're s'posed to. Ol' Floppy trying to talk me through getting on a Friday night, alcohol-infused, Teams meeting with the other guys woulda made a for a riotous half-hour Candid Camera-style comedy show. They all laughed at me to no end...
Final comment:
I have never, not even once, used FORTRAN since graduating college. Totally and completely worthless and clearly not worth all the stress and aggravation...
Sounds like you need to get out more.
Sounds like you need to get out more.
QFThe couldn't code his way out of a paper bag in BASIC if you gave him the first three lines. And it's a four line program.
Wanna borrow my old Osborne or Kaypro II to brush up on BASIC?
Cept the gator wasn't the logo for Polo…You prolly still have bite marks from the shirt-gator on your left ti… er, side.
And the closet yuppies/"preppies" of 'yore keep on exposing themselves.
