Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 25. Sep 2024, 11:34:46
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On 24/09/2024 23:36, Peter Flass wrote:
R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:
rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, 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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ALGOL's impact on succeeding languages was much greater than its actual
use.
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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.
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C is just pathetic at character strings.
Not really.
They are clearly defined entities and you could construct any routines to manipualate them you liked
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