Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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.