MSDOS and FORTRAN

**ShandyDrinker** · 15 April 2016, 14:33

Fortran was great... especially if you worked with complex numbers!

**stek** · 15 April 2016, 14:39

It was all FORTRAN when I worked on nuclear power stations. And all VMS too, happy days........

**FrontEnder** · 15 April 2016, 21:35

I wouldn't write off these old languages. After all, the terminator (and therefore skynet, probably) was written in COBOL.

**jamesbrown** · 15 April 2016, 21:37

FORTRAN is still widely used in some science and engineering disciplines.

**NickFitz** · 16 April 2016, 00:05

Originally posted by FrontEnder View Post

I wouldn't write off these old languages. After all, the terminator (and therefore skynet, probably) was written in COBOL.

Didn't the Terminator include some 6502 assembly language code? Gisajob, I can do that

**FrontEnder** · 16 April 2016, 07:13

Originally posted by zeitghost

It does indeed.

I'm not altogether clear on why the AI would be reviewing 6502 source code whilst hunting Sarah Connor, but there you go.

He was running a sideline business as an IT consultant, but was "working" from home that day.

As a highly efficient machine, I'd guess it has many processor cores, and hunting her probably only needs 2-3 max, so he might as well earn his day rate.

**Hobosapien** · 16 April 2016, 07:31

Originally posted by FrontEnder View Post

He was running a sideline business as an IT consultant, but was "working" from home that day.

As a highly efficient machine, I'd guess it has many processor cores, and hunting her probably only needs 2-3 max, so he might as well earn his day rate.

Also, as a consultant it knew not to deliver on time but to drag out the project of finding her for as long as it could. Why else would it have been so inefficient for a killing machine that 'absolutely will not stop'.

There's a lot we can learn from that movie. Not the 'give me your clothes' though. I stopped wearning leather when I got barred from the Blue Oyster Bar.

**FrontEnder** · 16 April 2016, 07:34

Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post

Also, as a consultant it knew not to deliver on time but to drag out the project of finding her for as long as it could. Why else would it have been so inefficient for a killing machine that 'absolutely will not stop'.

There's a lot we can learn from that movie. Not the 'give me your clothes' though. I stopped wearning leather when I got barred from the Blue Oyster Bar.

The terminator also visited that bar:

**Hobosapien** · 16 April 2016, 08:01

Originally posted by FrontEnder View Post

The terminator also visited that bar:

Now we know where it learnt to tango for the True Lies movie.

MSDOS and FORTRAN