[sdiy] computer languages better not to learn, was:how to learn C?

[Ingo Debus]

Am 09.01.2011 um 00:32 schrieb Veronica Merryfield:

>> My nephew is attending UCI for an engineering degree.  His first  
>> programming class was
>> FORTRAN.  So it's not dead quite yet.
>
> Fortran is still used heavily in math intensive and legacy code

"The extremely comfortable user interface supports vocal peripherals  
with automatic speech recognition for 138 languages - Sanskrit,  
Fortran and Bantu for additional charge. And of course run-time  
optimized run-time optimization."

That's a quote from one of the best short stories that were published  
in the German computer mag C't. This was back in 1989, but I still  
remember it ("GIPS unlimited" by Peter Schattschneider).

Ingo