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From Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject Re: java developers
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 Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> On 12/2/2011 5:30 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>> On 12/2/2011 2:03 PM, Arne Vajhøj 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?

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

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  Re: java developers Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-30 07:55 -0500
    Re: java developers Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 06:32 -0800
      Re: java developers Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-30 09:41 -0800
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 17:03 -0500
        Re: java developers Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-02 14:30 -0800
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 18:40 -0500
            Re: java developers Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-03 14:42 +0000
              Re: java developers Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-03 10:09 -0500
                Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:17 -0500
              Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:11 -0500
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    Re: java developers David Segall <david@address.invalid> - 2011-12-02 23:17 +1100
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 16:29 -0500
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          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:35 -0500
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-06 10:25 +0100
        Re: java developers Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:10 +0000
    Re: java developers BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:52 -0800
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