MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019
Note: Tuesday March 30th 2021: I noticed many people reading this article today for some reason so I decided to reprint it in case more people want to read it too. It was originally written January 28th 2019. end note.
Why I became a Mac User in 2006
I started in 1978 with a TRS 80 from Radio Shack with 4k that died whenever you turned it off so you had to store it on cassette tape and feed it back into the CPU every time you started it up whatever programming you wanted to load which was then in the Basic Language. I taught my older kids born in 1971, 1973 and 1974 how to program their own games and taught them how to design games using the basic language. In college in 1966 I first started to learn COBOL (a business programming language still used by the way) and Fortran (I just found out that Fortran is still used today too. Then, I bought in 1987 an IBM clone and an Epson Color printer together in Silicon Valley for 2500 Dollars and taught my kids who were 16, 15, and 13 how to program in MS-DOS which basically meant "Microsoft Disk Operating System". I really liked MSDOS and so did my kids because it also allowed you still to program in the Basic language at that time. Every successive Microsoft language allows you to do less and less things yourself and more and more you are shut out if you are a tech for the most part ongoing.
I was kind of getting tired by 1995 of PC's crashing all the time in the middle often of a very important program I was running for my businesses or running a game or even calculating a Fractal Art project (which took about 24 hours to calculate and print out about then for one art drawing on a fractal printed out in color on a piece of printer paper. The fractal part was likely around 1987 or 1988 on the AT. I and my son and step son owned various pentiums before I bought my first Macbook pro likely around 2006 I believe when the first Macbook pros came out.
So, finally in 2006 I bought my first Macbook Pro Laptop. I think I had had a couple of PC Laptops by then but this was my first Macbook pro. So, I began every few years buying a new Macbook pro 15 inch laptop which is what I presently have too. I think it was a 2009 I eventually bought and then a 2015 Macbook pro I'm working on right now. I like the fact that they don't crash all the time from viruses most of all. There are some drawbacks (like they aren't good for gaming like PCs are) but I'm not a gamer only my son is. He likes to build his own PC desktops custom made for gaming. And sometimes he will build a PC desktop for his friends or friends of my wife and I too. The last one cost about 700 dollars in parts but he had Amazon prime so that saved over 300 dollars in shipping the parts to him as Amazon prime has free shipping in addition to many other benefits as well.
I was kind of getting tired by 1995 of PC's crashing all the time in the middle often of a very important program I was running for my businesses or running a game or even calculating a Fractal Art project (which took about 24 hours to calculate and print out about then for one art drawing on a fractal printed out in color on a piece of printer paper. The fractal part was likely around 1987 or 1988 on the AT. I and my son and step son owned various pentiums before I bought my first Macbook pro likely around 2006 I believe when the first Macbook pros came out.
So, finally in 2006 I bought my first Macbook Pro Laptop. I think I had had a couple of PC Laptops by then but this was my first Macbook pro. So, I began every few years buying a new Macbook pro 15 inch laptop which is what I presently have too. I think it was a 2009 I eventually bought and then a 2015 Macbook pro I'm working on right now. I like the fact that they don't crash all the time from viruses most of all. There are some drawbacks (like they aren't good for gaming like PCs are) but I'm not a gamer only my son is. He likes to build his own PC desktops custom made for gaming. And sometimes he will build a PC desktop for his friends or friends of my wife and I too. The last one cost about 700 dollars in parts but he had Amazon prime so that saved over 300 dollars in shipping the parts to him as Amazon prime has free shipping in addition to many other benefits as well.
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Why physicists still use Fortran - Dan Elton's
moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/
Jul 16, 2015 - Why physicists still use Fortran. Fortran is rarely used today in industry — one ranking ranks it behind 29 other languages. However, Fortran is still a dominant language for the large scale simulation of physical systems, ie. ... The popular Open MPI libraries for parallelizing code were developed for these two languages.
Why is fortran used for scientific computing? - Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/.../why-is-fortran-used-for-scientific-computing
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Aug 29, 2016 - Fortran is, for better or worse, the only major language out there specifically designed for scientific numerical computing. It's array handling is nice, with succinct ...Is FORTRAN still being used today? If yes, what do people use it ...
https://www.quora.com/Is-FORTRAN-still-being-used-today-If-yes-what-do-people-u...
Mar 19, 2015 - Yes, Fortran is used for large scale numerical computations. Small scale too, but it faces more competition from things like Matlab when performance scalability is less important,Fortran isn't super famous for being intuitive and convenient.
May 6, 2017 - Last week NASA announced a code optimization competition. There is a Navier-
Is FORTRAN outdated, or still is being used? - ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_FORTRAN_outdated_or_still_is_being_used
If you want a good mathematical modelling language, MatLab is good. It can be compiled down to machine code with addition of a module. It can also interface to many programming languages. Yes,Fortran is still in use and Fortran 2003 is object oriented.
Fortran: 7 Reasons Why It's Not Dead - InformationWeek
https://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise.../fortran-7...its.../1321174
Jul 5, 2015 - It's still in use today, and here's what you need to know about it. ... the same one your grandparents might have used when they were beginning ...
Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially .... The firstFORTRAN compiler used this weighting to perform at compile time a Monte Carlo simulation of the generated ..... As of 25 September 2013, some of the software is still written in Fortran and some has been ported to C.
Fortran is alive! 5 reasons why Fortran isn't dead - VORtech
https://www.vortech.nl/en/fortran-is-alive/
Mark Roest considers five reasons why the Fortran programming language isn't ... A few of the main reasons why we still work with a language that you thought had ... I've used (except for one), there was a very good Fortran compiler available ...
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