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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
- Message-ID: <8328@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 16:23:43 GMT
- References: <DODD.92Dec12062844@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu> <397@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <DODD.92Dec13064112@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <DODD.92Dec13064112@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu> dodd@roebling.poly.edu writes:
- > >>>>> "Toon" == Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:
- 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 The problem is not so much with the outdated hardware (spacecraft,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?)
-
- Yes, it has. Also it is no longer column based. It starts to resemble
- program languages of about 1965.
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