Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : commodorejohn (at) *nospam* gmail.com (John Ames)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 25. Sep 2024, 23:42:54
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:27:31 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
You realize ISO Pascal provided conformant array arguments for this
purpose?
I'm aware! I'm also aware that the ISO standard wasn't even *published*
until 13 years into the life of the language.
Also, you realize that Wirth did not see Pascal as the last word in
programming languages? That he went on to create others that solved
this and other problems in nicer ways?
I do! But a mind that conceives of such a thing, and not only fails to
immediately scrap it as ridiculous, but actually pushes it through to
implementation and real-world usage, must be considered fundamentally
unsound, even if its owner never does anything more untoward than that.