I got my degree in Physics, so I learned to program in Fortran. In
that day, however, there were folks who were clamoring for more C
programming in science. I took one look at it and gagged on the pointers
and mallocs. In my opinion, no scientist should trust C code for important
numerical work unless he has too; that's why Fortran was created in the first
place.
Anyhow, one of the local self-appointed Unix gurus was aghast at
my distaste for C's primitiveness. Alas, I feal justified today because
Perl, Java, C#, and Cyclone are proving that C is for systems programming and
not for everyday use.
That much said, I still am only fluent in Fortran, shell, Perl (and a little
Tcl/TK), so I don't really consider myself a programmer, just a sysadmin with
a clue.
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