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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 7, 2012 18:08:46 GMT -5
My doctoral dissertation has been delivered for evaluation, and I have no particular tasks to do -- I decided to educate myself by learning some new programming languages.
Perl is the best one of the languages that I have come across. There exist a very good book series on Perl: O'Reilly's book series Learning Perl -- Intermediate Perl -- Programming Perl -- Perl Cookbook.
O'Reilly also has some good books on the Python language: Learning Python -- Programming Python.
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Post by Sir John on Dec 7, 2012 18:19:32 GMT -5
I read a book on programming once.
'Programming for DUMMIES' it was called.
Didn't understand a word of it.
SJ
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 7, 2012 18:22:40 GMT -5
I read a book on programming once. 'Programming for DUMMIES' it was called. Didn't understand a word of it. SJ Which programming language did it concern? Andy |
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Post by Sir John on Dec 7, 2012 18:31:22 GMT -5
English!
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Post by Sir John on Dec 7, 2012 18:31:46 GMT -5
;-)
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Post by Swampy on Dec 7, 2012 19:03:33 GMT -5
LOL!
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 8, 2012 1:38:01 GMT -5
I read a book on programming once. 'Programming for DUMMIES' it was called. Didn't understand a word of it. SJ The probable reason for the failure is that the book was for dummies, and you are not a dummy. I have read a book called "Perl for DUMMIES", and it was very good ;D |
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Post by boxcar on Dec 8, 2012 2:16:33 GMT -5
Some very complex programs have also been written in basic. I wrote one on tropospheric scatter propagation predictions.
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Post by Sir John on Dec 8, 2012 2:59:04 GMT -5
Bluejay,
Back in about 1980 or so, the Bank called for applicants to be trained as programmers in our VERY new 'Computer Department'.
I was but an innocent lad and applied and in due course sat the first test. It was a test to weed out the REAL dummies and I managed to pass that.
Then I got the call to tackle the aptitude test to see if I really had what it takes to be a programmer. That went VERY well until i got to a section that went completely over my head. The shutters went down and I knew that all was lost.
Amazingly, I eventually ended up in the Banks IT area from a completely different career path.
SJ
PS,
Do a 'Google ' on MICR and E13b type font, and you will see where i was deeply involved in the introduction of this system into Australian banking.
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 8, 2012 11:58:19 GMT -5
Some very complex programs have also been written in basic. I wrote one on tropospheric scatter propagation predictions. Quite so. Many "professional" computer scientists love to criticize BASIC, but I do not agree with that fashionable talk. I recall reading about a big international bank which converted 3'000'000 lines of BASIC code to a modern microcomputer BASIC -- with excellent results. To a certain extent, pragmatism rules in Computer Science. "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." |
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Post by Swampy on Dec 8, 2012 12:02:53 GMT -5
I like C and C++.
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 8, 2012 12:06:59 GMT -5
C and C++ are very good, and so is Java.
And three more modern languages are very good: Perl, Python and Ruby.
FORTRAN still lives; LISP and Prolog are being used in Artificial Intelligence.
But I don't know really much about COBOL's modern-day destiny.
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Post by mcnoch on Dec 9, 2012 15:08:41 GMT -5
But I don't know really much about COBOL's modern-day destiny. As long as there are i5 & Co systems around, it has a future. |
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Post by bluejay77 on Dec 9, 2012 22:36:48 GMT -5
But I don't know really much about COBOL's modern-day destiny. As long as there are i5 & Co systems around, it has a future. Could you explain the abbreviations i5 and Co? Commercial, I presume, is Co. There are innumerable COBOL programs there driving commercial activity; they probably never will go away. I have done some work with COBOL; sophist scientists often criticize it, but I think it is quite a good tool. |
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Post by mcnoch on Dec 10, 2012 11:37:05 GMT -5
"i5" is the former "eServer iSeries" is the former "AS/400".
The medium sized companies still use it and the compatibles (co) as their "little mainframes".
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