Re: Help: Randomizing a List of Numbers

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:14:37 +0200

John Savard wrote:

> Bill Emerson <no@one.home> wrote, in part:
>
>>The only thing worse than mocking dead languages is reading or writing
>>them.
>
> That could be, .......

Anyway, Visual Basic, which evolves from BASIC, is very well
alive, as far as I am aware.

> Yes, GCC is free, and, for that matter, you can still download Watcom
> C and FORTRAN for free...

There is unfortunately no free compiler for Fortran starting
from Fortran 90 (if I don't err).

> I *was* sorely tempted to make a riposte to the criticism of BASIC by
> presenting the algorithm again in a language with longer variable
> names...
>
> 360 Assembler.

I would have had the fun of reading that, since I still
remember quite a bit of its instruction set :)

M. K. Shen

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