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List:       classiccmp
Subject:    Re: The list seems very quiet today
From:       ben <bfranchuk () jetnet ! ab ! ca>
Date:       2015-10-30 17:55:54
Message-ID: 5633AF2A.6080902 () jetnet ! ab ! ca
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On 10/30/2015 11:47 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> > On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:39 PM, ben <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > On 10/30/2015 8:55 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> > > On 30 October 2015 at 12:02, rod <rodsmallwood52@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > > The list seems very quiet to-day.
> > > > I have had only one post this morning.
> > > > Anybody know why?
> > > 
> > > Is everybody off at the top-secret VCF-Paris?
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > > No replies to my message about NASA wanting Fortran programmers...
> > > 
> > > extinct?  or just too shameful?
> > > 
> > Confused ... The space craft would not be Fortran.
> > Porting the old software to newer hardware?
> 
> Presumably the Fortran is at the Earth end.  Yes, you could port it, but you can't \
> port it if you can't read the original.  And given that you have a perfectly good \
> Fortran implementation still available, porting it may not be all that useful.  \
> (Now if they were talking Jovial, the answer might be different -- though even \
> there you can keep running the original, perhaps in emulation.) 
> 	paul

I am thinking they want to get rid of all the BIG iron left and go to a 
IBM Pizza box.Ben.


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