Friday I dragged out the old slide rule to show my daughter who has this hand held thing that makes math way too simple. C and D scales are much smaller these days.
Interesting, I just wrote a short program in FORTRAN today. I haven't used FORTRAN in years. I was surprised how much I still remembered. Of course there were several things I had to reference to get it to work right. FORTRAN was developed back in the 1950's by John Backus of IBM. It is still used to this day, particularly for programs involving extensive science and engineering calculations. However, FORTRAN is becoming more and more of a lost art as young programmers use more modern high level langauges like Java, Perl,Python, Ruby, C++, etc. One thing I like about FORTRANis that it's cool to see a program written in CAPITAL LETTERS with Line Numbers.... and with an occaisional GOTO statement...