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- From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
- Date: 13 Dec 92 06:41:12
- Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
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- In-reply-to: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl's message of 12 Dec 92 19:12:16 GMT
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- >>>>> "Toon" == Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:
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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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- Toon> The problem is not so much with the outdated hardware (spacecraft,
- Toon> microcomputers) alluded to, as with the target itself: FORTRAN as of 1991
- Toon> is a language with semicolons ;-)
-
- But it is still column based! And as RP says: "but every one of them
- [compilers] has a way of converting itself back into a FORTRAN 66 compiler at
- the drop of an option card -- to compile DO loops like God meant them to be."
-
- (it doesn't really have semi-colons -- does it?)
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