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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Languages for number crunching
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 12:26:37 EST
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> > -- 
> > D Gary Grady
> 
>   I was at a seminar on large scale scientific computing given by Bob
> Voigt (of ICASE) and he was asked what language would be used for
> number crunching in the year 2000.  His response was that he didn't
> know what the language would be --- but he predicted that it would
> be called FORTRAN.
> --henry schaffer

Funny you should mention that.  I know Bob was not the first person to
say that, and the most famous attribution I've heard was to Cray himself
back in the early 1970s.
[BTW, I'm trying to make an effort to see Bob in a couple of weeks and
I will ask him if he made a paraphase.]

Alan Perlis said,
          42. You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his
          attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

I gave a talk here on trends in programming languages.  2000 is getting
closer: F8X != F77 != F66 != FIV != FII.  F8X has some pretty radical
stuff proposed, but the question is whether you (generically) will
be writing in F66?

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