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- From: dnl@convex.is.macsch.com (David Lombard)
- Subject: Re: Fortran Forever?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.171337.18547@draco.macsch.com>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:13:37 GMT
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- In article <27366@oasys.dt.navy.mil> ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman) writes:
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- >In Scientific American, July 1991, p. 112, Paul Wallich's article entitled
- >"FORTRAN Forever: Is it still the language of choice for science?"
- >contains the quote but not its origin. According to the article, Guy
- >L. Steele of Thinking Machines quotes an unknown scientist as saying
- >"I don't know what the computer language of the year 2000 will look
- >like, but I know that it will be called FORTRAN."
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- *Legend* attributes it to Seymour Cray.
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