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- From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
- Message-ID: <397@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:12:16 GMT
- References: <DODD.92Dec12062844@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- > Has anyone out there thought about updating RP? I mean the term Trash80
- > is so old it brings back a flood of memories and tears to my eyes. I
- > recall my first computer, a Sinclair.
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- > One could put an appendix on the end with new references pointing out
- > the newly discovered virtues of FORTRAN.
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- The problem is not so much with the outdated hardware (spacecraft,
- microcomputers) alluded to, as with the target itself: FORTRAN as of 1991
- is a language with semicolons ;-)
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