Re: NYT disses Fortran
- From: Ron Ford <ron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 18:31:02 -0500
On Sat, 31 May 2008 10:53:33 -0400, Michael Metcalf wrote:
"Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/business/31fha.html?ref=todayspaperWho volunteers to write a nice Letter to the Editor pointing how wrong this
In addition, the agency's computer systems are antiquated so the
average age is 18 old years that Mr. Montgomery has joked that he is
in the market for Fortran programmers. (To his astonishment, a staff
member told him the agency actually does need experts familiar with
Fortran, the computer language introduced in 1957 and now rarely
used. Some of the agency's machines have been humming along for 28
years.)
is?
Why nice? Not knowing things about fortran just speaks to the galactic
ignorance that I've come to expect from political appointees who are Texas
Repubs. Fellow Texan Scott McClellan says that the liberal media needed to
be harder on them.
At the end of the article, there was a little stat that HUD had helped
2,276 persons in this crisis. Last month in Nevada alone, there were 66 K
foreclosures.
I'd like Montgomery to comment on the effects of fellow Texan Phil Gramm
(R, of course) on American housing. Regulations exist so that Enron and
subprime collapses don't, while corporate robber barons flee the
consequences. It motivates this type of duplicity that Gramm's wife was on
the board of Enron. Can Montgomery name anyone who had a hand in making
HUD so popular these days?
--
Ron Ford
"My ex's really do live in Texas."
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