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- From: zkdc05@trc.amoco.com (Kelly D. Crawford)
- Subject: Re: Fortran Forever?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.123352@trc.amoco.com>
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- Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
- References: <5698@sumax.seattleu.edu> <27366@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Nov11.171337.18547@draco.macsch.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:33:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.171337.18547@draco.macsch.com>, dnl@convex.is.macsch.com (David Lombard) writes:
- > In article <27366@oasys.dt.navy.mil> ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman) writes:
- > >
- > >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."
- >
- >
- > *Legend* attributes it to Seymour Cray.
- >
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- I heard the same legend just today (but attributed to *oral tradition*.) That's two
- votes for Seymour.
-
- Speaking of great Fortran quotes, Rex Page (a functional programming guru that has
- been active in the standardization effort of Fortran 90) says:
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- "Fortran was a mistake of ignorance and naivete. C was created by people that should
- have known better."
-
- and
-
- "Procedural programming is a monumental waste of human effort."
-
- (quotes used by permission, all rights reserved, close cover before flaming)
-
- Kelly
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