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- From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Fortran Forever?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.144614.505@hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 19:46:13 GMT
- References: <5698@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University
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- In article <5698@sumax.seattleu.edu>, davej@sumax.seattleu.edu (Dave Jenner) writes:
- > I remember a saying something like: "Fortran will be around forever, we
- > just don't know what the language will look like in the future" or something
- > like that. Can someone remember what the saying is, who said it, and
- > even give a reference to it?
-
- I had heard that it was from Seymour Cray in response to the question, "What
- language will your machines be running in the year 2000?" His supposed
- response, "I don't know what language it will be, but I know what it will be
- called . . . FORTRAN." I wrote to him a few years ago to ask if the attribution
- was accurate, but I never received a response. Can anyone from Cray Research
- comment? (On the quotation, not on why he didn't respond. :-))
-