Category: Fortran
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Long term growth of programming language use
The names of files containing source code often include a suffix denoting the programming language used, e.g., .c for C source code. These suffixes provide a cheap and cheerful method for estimating programming language use within a file system directory. This method has its flaws, with two main factors introducing uncertainty into the results: The […]
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Procedure nesting a once common idiom
Structured programming was a popular program design methodology that many developers/managers claimed to be using in the 1970s and 1980s. Like all popular methodologies, everybody had/has their own idea about what it involves, and as always, consultancies sprang up to promote their take on things. The 1972 book Structured programming provides a taste of the […]