Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 15:58:17 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:55:56 +0200, D wrote:
 

For the customer it is great, and brings a lot of technical
credibility to the deal. For the technologist it is also great,
because they get first hand experience with the problems of the
customer and I have seen that it changes how they think about what
they do.

 
I've worked closely with a couple of clients but in general it's not a
good idea to let programmers talk to the clients. Programmers don't
have very good filters.
 
 

Give them an idea and programmers are likely to go off into the wild
blue yonder. “I wonder what would happen if we used AI for this
problem?” or whatever the programmer’s favorite technology of the month
is.

Well, yeah, what fun is doing the same old thing?  I tasked a new
programmer with a stand alone interface to see how he would perform. I
didn't really expect to have a Go project in our source tree but so it
goes. It joined the C, C++, C#, Fortran, Python, Java, and Javascript
code. I'm not sure if it was ever deleted but there might even be some
Tcl/Tk.