[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: VMS documentation

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Fri Mar 18 15:10:31 EDT 2022


On 2022-03-17, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <t104l3$mbq$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
><davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
>
>> You seem to have this weird concept that the language makes the
>> programmer.  I seriously doubt that. 
>> 
>> A good programmer will use good techniques regardless of the language.
>> A poor programmer will find ways to screw up in just about any
>> language. 
>
> And a good Fortran programmer can write Fortran in any language.  :-)
>

And if they only know Fortran, that's all they can do.

Simon.

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