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- From: jsvrc@rc.rit.edu (Doctor FORTRAN)
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- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.235245.2307@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 23:52:45 GMT
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- In article <DODD.92Dec12062844@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu> dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd) writes:
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- >One could put an appendix on the end with new references pointing out the
- >newly discovered virtues of FORTRAN.
-
- Here's the list you've all been waiting for: From the home office in Scottsdale,
- Arizona, the newly discovered virtues of FORTRAN:
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- 10. Implicit typing eliminates wasteful declaration of variables.
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- 9. Multi-million dollar interplanetary probes can be sent parsecs off course
- because of missing comma in "DO" statement.
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- 8. Is sexier than C.
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- 7. Be the first on your block to wear the "I've got a FORTRAN-90 Compiler"
- T-shirt.
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- 6. Take snotty young quiche-eating brats to task for their turning up their
- noses at what is obviously a real programming language (when
- programmers were programmers, and not sissies).
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- 5. Best language to use on an IBM-1620 CADET (Can't add, doesn't even try).
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- 4. Rigid field format goes hand-in-hand with model 29 keypunch program drum.
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- 3. Built-in job security with Arithmetic IFs, ASSIGNs, and Computed GOTOs.
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- 2. Code is self-documenting.
-
- And (drumroll, please, Paul), the Number One newly discovered virtue of
- FORTRAN, from the home office in Scottsdale, Arizona,
-
- 1. You can argue over whether it's really "FORTRAN" or "Fortran".
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