Re: The joy of FORTRAN

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

That's a marvelous description, although it fails to really capture the
perversity of things like array-size-as-type-distinction; when a man
introduces language features that practically every single third-party
implementor has to provide their own workaround for, you know you've
found a Truly Special Genius.

  Dudes, when Knuth was on the hunt for a language to whip
  up TeX back in the day, he figured Pascal was the cream of
  the crop among his options. You got to put that language in
  perspective and see it through the lens of its time!