Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 25. Sep 2024, 05:38:54
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:13 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
When I went to uni in the 70s, the computer science lecturer had a
hard-on for Pascal, the latest and greatest. Always slipped in snide
remarks about BASIC or COBOL in most classes.
Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2. I swear as soon as anybody figured
out how to do anything useful with one of his languages Wirth designed a
new, more obscure version.
https://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter8.phpChapter 8 - Input/Output
In preparation
That sums it up. I've heard Wirth's languages described as programs that
are designed to tell secrets to themselves.
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