From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of m6?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:50:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191117055058.GB23794@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911171625260.408@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 04:30:15PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, SPC wrote:
>
> >My first FORTRAN textbook was titled "FORTRAN with WATFOR and WATFIV". It
> >had a long print run as well.
>
> Now *that* brings back memories (not necessarily pleasant). WATFOR was as
> ugly as sin
I'm pretty sure that was the Fortran I learned. Yeah, it was not C. But
it was math. I spent a bunch of time learning accumulated errors and
more time on floating point numbers. My dad was a theoretical physics
guy so I did some coding for him. I respected Fortran for what it could
do but I developed a hate for floating point. In my mind, floating
point numbers meant you couldn't handle the world you were working in.
It just felt like you could shift the domain you were working in so
integers could work. If you couldn't do that, you were admitting that
you were not accurate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-17 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-11 21:10 Arnold Robbins
2019-11-11 22:18 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-12 16:01 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-11-11 22:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-11 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 0:07 ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-11-12 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 0:30 ` Clem cole
2019-11-16 16:27 ` SPC
2019-11-17 5:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-17 5:50 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-11-17 18:12 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 18:23 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-17 18:56 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 22:46 ` Barry Stanly
2019-11-12 0:42 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-11 22:37 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-12 1:09 ` Steve Johnson
2019-11-12 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-13 9:16 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-13 12:20 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 12:50 ` Mike Markowski
2019-11-13 13:02 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 16:56 ` Paul Winalski
2019-11-13 19:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 19:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-14 9:26 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-14 10:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-13 22:53 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2019-11-12 15:15 Doug McIlroy
2019-11-13 7:38 ` arnold
2019-11-13 10:55 ` David Arnold
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