Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 10/5/24 2:12 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 4 Oct 2024 22:47:30 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

... many people using a high level abstraction like Python think
of it as some sort of magic ...

 What we have seen in this thread (and others) is many of the younger ones
think C is that “magic” out of which all else is woven.

   MOSTLY true ...
   Well, in the end, it's the CPU microcoding ... all else
   is just a way to make use of that  :-)
   Almost everything in Python ... well, it's a 'C' app
   really, just made to LOOK like another computer language.
   Quite a number are even more like that, the GNU compilers
   especially. They're just syntax translators, turn your
   'FORTRAN' or 'COBOL' or FORTH or whatever into kinda
   unreadable 'C' to then be compiled.