I learned both....Cork wrote:use a slide rule, and a book of trig tables.
I was doing land surveying when the first programmable calculators came out. I rewrote the traverse program to match the way we kept the log
'course...looked just like their equations. It was the bloody I/O that sucked.Cork wrote:However, Fortran remained popular for many years, especially among engineers and scientists
I'm not seeing it. Fortran was good for crunchin' a lot of numbers. If you're going back to fundamentals just get your calculator out.Cork wrote:even today there could be limits as to what CAD could do, such that engineers could have no option but to return to fundamentals, to be sure that everything is accounted for, and that's where an antique such as Fortran could help to save the day.