Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
>  n/a <na@[...].invalid> writes:
> 
>    
> > hi, newbie so please be tolerant.... ;)
> >
> > i need to start to learn a programming language to be able to develop
> > custom aps to be applied to a variety of purposes but mainly 1) financial
> > data modeling--including graphics and data handling via database queries,
> > etc.; and 2) more general business-type aps.
> >     
>  Why not Ruby and Java and C++? 
>  The realy unanswered question is when is one better than the other. I
>  even have seen someone using C for "scripting" ;-)
>    
Back when dinosaurs walked the Earth amongst humans, I used *Fortran* 
for scripting, mostly because it was more or less guaranteed to exist 
everywhere, while everyone had their own "JCL/command 
line/shell/whatever". So not only is it possible to write Fortran 
programs in any language ...

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