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Re: Help with deciding on the right programming class

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FORTRAN is an Engineering language based upon BASIC
Not quite...FORTRAN preceded BASIC by about a decade.

Some of us old folks got to learn FORTRAN on punched cards, boy that was fun!

anyways, quick answer, for engineering C type languages are the way to go. VB is for business, FORTRAN is obsolete