Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : Danny (at) *nospam* hyperspace.vogon.gov (R Daneel Olivaw)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 24. Sep 2024, 20:01:31
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rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language? It was contemporaneous
with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL>
ALGOL's impact on succeeding languages was much greater than its actual
use.
ALGOL60 was the language where a test of equality between two floating point numbers was actually a test of "close enough for ALGOL". If I want to test for "approximately equal" then I want a different operator.
How well did it handle character strings? Any language which could not handle them was a language I wanted no part of.
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