Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2012/02
From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Saying goodbye
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:13:12 -0500
FORTRAN is still around for some applications. It's still the best for
engineering in many cases.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Leeson
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:46 PM
To: 'The Klarinet Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [kl] Saying goodbye
My goodness. How did you ever get hold of that
film? I was the producer and it was made for the
25th anniversary of the introduction of FORTRAN
somewhere around 1980. If anything can be credited
for bringing about the beginning of the computer
revolution, it was FORTRAN. I don't know if
anyone uses it today, but it was a cash cow in the
1950s, 60s, and early 70s, and without it, the
introduction of large scale computers (which led
Jobs to the personal computers) would have been
delayed enormously.
Dan Leeson
email: dnleeson@-----.net
alternate email: leesondaniel899@-----.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:23 PM
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] Saying goodbye
I never met Dan, yet I had read some of his early
work ...
Basic programming concepts and the IBM 1620
computer
and seen his movie
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTR
AN/video/FORTRAN-1982.wmv
way before I knew he was interested in clarinets.
Software programming, movies, and the clarinet.
What a guy!
Mark C.
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