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To: AdmSmith

I programmed in Fortran for close to thirty years. What got me out of the ‘Biz’ wasn’t the programming, it was the ensuing documentation. When I first started a job that involved a one line code change plus testing and documentation took eight hours or so. When I left it was at least six month’s from start to finish plus almost a half a million dollars in overhead.

It was just too much...

Now I’m much happier doing what I’m doing.


5 posted on 04/18/2016 3:17:51 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: The Working Man

Yes, the documentation was terrible. But everything (?) evolves even FORTRAN.


7 posted on 04/18/2016 3:21:38 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: The Working Man

My first programming language in Electrical Engineering School was FORGO...the Daddy of FORTRAN! Ah, the Sixties!


23 posted on 04/18/2016 4:45:15 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Remember...after the primaries, we better still be on the same team!)
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