It's not about us...

[bottomfeeder]

..it's about something much bigger than us.

[ssgaufan]

Would you quit posting fucking links to facebook?

[Tiger Wench]

Would you quit posting fucking links to facebook?

Give it up.  No one is going to click on the links you post.  Not enough Anti-Virus software in the world to combat the viruses and malware that would result.

[bottomfeeder]

Give it up.  No one is going to click on the links you post.  Not enough Anti-Virus software in the world to combat the viruses and malware that would result.

Only if you use windoze or mac. I'm unaffected by any of it, so I never know if it contains such.  OpenBSD

[War Eagle!!!]

Only if you use windoze or mac what 99.9% of Americans use. I'm unaffected by any of it, so I never know if it contains such.  OpenBSD

[bottomfeeder]

Only if you use windoze or mac what 99.9% of Americans use. I'm unaffected by any of it, so I never know if it contains such.  OpenBSD

I started my computer experience with FORTRAN IV in 1987. Furthermore, Macintosh:

Mac OS X is based upon the Mach kernel. Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in Nextstep, the core of Mac OS X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X

However, OS X Leopard is UNIX-compliant with some sort of certification. OS X does have FreeBSD's virtual file system, network stack, components of its userspace and few other stuff. See apples on webpage about UNIX technology that is included with OS X - http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html

I prefer BSD because it's Unix based.

[GH2001]

I started my computer experience with FORTRAN IV in 1987. Furthermore, Macintosh:
I prefer BSD because it's Unix based.

It's ALL unix based. All of it. Windows, android, ios, linux.  End of story.

And you just referenced fortran to show your expertise? Wow

[bottomfeeder]

And you just referenced fortran to show your expertise? Wow

No, that was the first higher language I had to take for EE.

It's ALL unix based. All of it. Windows, android, ios, linux.  End of story.

To some extent more than others.

[DnATL]

I'm still waiting for VisualFortran

[bottomfeeder]

http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-us/brands/ovation/Pages/index.aspx

I'm still waiting for VisualFortran

http://www.pgroup.com/products/pvf.htm
You can get Fortran compliers anywhere. Fedora has them. I don't use Fortran at all now.

http://www.softwiretechnology.com/
http://www.fieldbus.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=195
http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370729a.pdf

Here's where the money is right now. Replacing old systems.

http://www.yokogawa.com/iab/pdf/suc/iab-suc-aramco-en.pdf

http://www.yokogawa.com

http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH11/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp?org=YOKOGAWA&cws=1

[GH2001]

No, that was the first higher language I had to take for EE.
To some extent more than others.

Sucked then too. At least I can say cobol is still used a lot most notably in the financial world. There is still not another language that can do the high math/algorithms AND move that much data (millions even billions per hour).

[AUJarhead]

Sucked then too. At least I can say cobol is still used a lot most notably in the financial world. There is still not another language that can do the high math/algorithms AND move that much data (millions even billions per hour).

Yep.  Every year, Oracle tells us they are going to phase out COBOL for processing of PeopleSoft Financial Aid and Student Financials, and every year, they provide tax updates to the existing programs, because that's easier than recreating it in a different language.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Sucked then too. At least I can say cobol is still used a lot most notably in the financial world. There is still not another language that can do the high math/algorithms AND move that much data (millions even billions per hour).

Fortran still gets used a lot in engineering, it still sucks, but it is used.

[Tiger Wench]

[AUJarhead]

You are obviously a '0' type person.

[Tiger Wench]

You are obviously a '0' type person.

I thought you liked bi-women?

[bottomfeeder]

Fortran still gets used a lot in engineering, it still sucks, but it is used.

You guys don't use C++? I understand that Fortran is the gold standard for quants and scientific calculations, however I would think more engineers would use C. I took 77 and I know it has been updated long since then, I just haven't had to use it. Pascal, Matlab, C++, etc have all been adequate for my calculations. As far as the ISO 9126 standard is concerned, I would venture that C++ would be the best choice.

http://www.waveforcetechnologies.com/WaveForce%20Product%20Features.pdf

[AUTiger1]

Fortran still gets used a lot in engineering, it still sucks, but it is used.

Computational Fluid Dynamics.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

You guys don't use C++? I understand that Fortran is the gold standard for quants and scientific calculations, however I would think more engineers would use C. I took 77 and I know it has been updated long since then. I just haven't had to use it. Pascal, Matlab, C++, etc have all been adequate for my calculations. As far as the ISO 9126 is concerned, I would venture that C++ would be the best choice.

Nope, I took C++ in college as a tech elective and that was the last time I've used it.  We have a lot of legacy software that was written in Fortran, the most common analysis tool Nastran was written in a Fortran derivative, and when it comes to manipulating large matrices of data Fortran seems to be just more straightforward to me.

Lots of guys use Matlab too.  But that's pretty similar to Fortran from what I remember.  A large piece of structure on the Ares I (RIP) was given to me and another guy to design.  I wrote all the stress equations and he programmed them into a genetic algorithm he wrote in Matlab.  NASA wanted us to write a paper as that was kind of a novel way of doing a first cut design and we ended way ahead of the scheduling curve, he was all into it because he's a PhD.  I'm just a filthy contractor so I asked how much money was in it, when I heard it was only for the greater good of the engineering world I passed.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Computational Fluid Dynamics.

I should have done CFD work.  Write some code and let it run for about a week, check your answers and repeat.