Re: Fortran Is Not Dead, Unfortunately

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 00:06

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In article <1992Oct13.182222.741@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
>> FORTRAN or PASCAL. I do not repeat here what I explained to him why he
>> should take Pascal, I assume you know the arguments ;-) but the fact
>> remains that universities today still offer beginner programming courses
>> in Fortran. Sigh :-(
>
>I believe that's the case only in Germany. Computer science is not very  
>advanced here :-((

   As late as 3 years ago, the University of Texas at Austin in the US
offered introductory courses in Fortran or Pascal.

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