Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/10/25 11:56 AM, Sn!pe wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
 

     If I had to explain electrics to someone from the

  >>     Roman empire days, I'd use plumbing analogies.
  >>
  >
  > It's been done:
  >
  > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine>

>

>
    That's a fascinating bit of tech ! Wonder why he
    used fluids instead of electrics ? Analog electronic
    computing had been around for a long time. Maybe
    ya just couldn't get enough steps into a sim with
    electrics before there was doom from complexity
    and error-amplification ?

 [...]
 It was useful as an easily understood teaching tool.

   Yea ... but he went BEYOND just "teaching" - tried,
   kinda succeeded, in turning it into a practical
   forensic tool. It's a weird thing.