Subj : Re: What things should successful programmers-to-be learn right now?
To   : comp.programming
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 10:51 am

wee wrote:
> 
> I do understand that I'm vaguely new to the industry.
> 
> However, more to the point: In what industries are the languages used
> that I listed above from Dave Vandervies' post? Perhaps an answer to
> that would be more helpful to all of us than your unfortunately snide
> comment.

Not intended as snide, simply confirming your viewpoint is narrow...

In particular, Fortran is used widely in aerospace, meterology,
virtually all branches of engineering, ...  Specifically, finite-element
codes, all the major weather forecasting models, all the original (and
most of the current) nuclear design codes, the numerical analysis tools
at www.netlib.org, ...

Forth is still used in in robotics and other embedded systems although
I've not done that particular life in quite some time now...at one time
(and I presume still is?) the boot loader for Sun was a Forth
interpreter.  I'm pretty sure the FedEx package tracker firmware is
Forth-based.

I forget what else was on the list...oh, Postscript.  At least the
embedded printers and I know of a few of the CAD-based engravers, etc.,
use Postscript for controlling the heads...I'm sure there are a zillion
other applications.

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