KVC@engvax.UUCP.UUCP (07/10/86)
> At that instant, I began hating my system manager (and DEC) for his > incredible blindness towards modern programming techniques. Well, > he is gone now (although our current system manager also codes > exclusively in Fortran) but every time I open that book to look at > examples, I still see Fortran. Oh come on! Enough of this bullshit please. Take a look at the C manual for C examples. Take a look at the Pascal manual for Pascal examples. Take a look at the goddamn COBOL manual for Christ's sake if you want COBOL examples!!!! If your system manager (or anyone else) WANTS to use FORTRAN, then that's his prerogative. At least the system gives you a CHOICE of languages. I find it incredibly offensive that any system or any person should force me to use any particular language, whether that language be C or BASIC. Give it a rest already... /Kevin Carosso engvax!kvc @ csvax.caltech.edu Hughes Aircraft Co.