Re: java developers

From:

Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:09:41 -0500

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On 12/3/2011 9:42 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:40:27 -0500, Arne Vajh??j wrote:

On 12/2/2011 5:30 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:

On 12/2/2011 2:03 PM, Arne Vajh??j wrote:

Not entirely true. There are plenty of COBOL programmers out there
who don't need much of a second language. There are AnySingleLanguage
programmer career tracks that are long and boring.

I think Cobol is the only language so far that have been able to cover
an entire worklife as mainstream language.

What about Fortran?

I don't think there are enough Fortran jobs today to ensure a career.

Did the NAG library ever get translated from Fortran to another language,
e.g. C ?

I remember some years ago hearing that the cost of doing that translation
and associated revalidation would prevent serious numeric work ever
migrating away from Fortran.

A few years ago I attended a presentation on a high-performance
implementation of the BLAS package. The driver code that set up
matrices and called BLAS to manipulate them was in C, and one could
not help noticing that the array accesses looked like `matrix[j][i]'.

In light of the subscript order in the C code, what might we
guess about the language BLAS' users are expected to write?

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Eric Sosman
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