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Re: Help with deciding on the right programming class

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
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 VB is for business, FORTRAN is obsolete
I never did FORTRAN, but some ATLAS. Now those were the old days.

The standard here at SIU-C for Engineering is to start off with C++ and then on to other languages, it really is the easiest while being an industry standard. It's actually a requirement for all Engineering here.

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