Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : suzyw0ng (at) *nospam* outlook.com (Woozy Song)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 25. Sep 2024, 04:03:13
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 24/09/2024 14:11, Sn!pe wrote:
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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>
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If you look at Algol, it really spawned the likes of B, C, and Pascal and so on . Its use of local variables being a key feature. They completely replaced it.
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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.
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