Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/22/25 7:56 AM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 22 Mar 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 21/03/2025 22:22, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 18-03-2025, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> a écrit :

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 04:54:17 -0400
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
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France/F-Pop just NEVER got modern music.

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Nonsense. Jean-Michel JARRE and David GETTA played modern pop songs
which where well known all over the world. I don't consider their music
as great, but they were as modern as they could be at their time.
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I admit that French pop is outside my own wheelhouse, but I suspect
you're likelier to hear the bombarde in traditional events and
selections from Praetorius than anything on the radio o_O

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If by that you mean that the only French music you know is what you can
hear on the radio, I agree, it's pretty awful. But French music is not
limited to what's on the radio. And, by the way, I can understand one
don't like French music when one's not French because it can help to
have time to be accustomed by it.
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When I was in Germany I discovered the schlagers. On one side, I found
it wonderful to see people singing together. But I was never able to
like it. It was too weird for me. But it doesn't stop me to discover
other German bands like Die Toten Hosen.
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Nothing beats Swedish Death Metal.
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Its those long dark winter nights and all that socialisim that does it. Music to commit suicide to.

 You are a wise man! This is the truth! For those of you interested in some oldies but goldies, I recommend Candlemass LP Epicus Doomicus Metallicus. Good stuff! I also liked their second one, Nightfall. Doom metal at its best

   Swedes have become, well ... worrisome ........
   Remember when Sweden was sold as HappyLand ? NOT
   so anymore. Too much socialism, too much Wokeism,
   too many Islamists ...... and Death Metal emerged.
   By all reports, Swedes barely even talk to each
   other anymore ... just their tiny old school peer
   groups and that's the extent of their social spectrum.
   Expect native breeding to reach serious negative
   values until ......
   From fierce vikings to THIS in just 1200 years.
   Beowulf would have committed suicide as a child ...
   But hey, the UK is about to crack too ... similar
   reasons/psychology.
   Which begs a number of questions about the whole
   'liberal' post-WW2 paradigm in general ......
   seems it became, even if not intentionally, a sort
   of suicide pact.