Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:00:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Bob Eager wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
 

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:45:51 +0000, rbowman wrote:
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:14:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

PL/I was IBM’s attempt at a Grand Unification of both “business” and
“scientific” programming in one language. If you thought C++
programming was full of surprises when your program did unexpected
things, PL/I invented the whole genre of “surprise-ridden programming
language”

 
IBM was always so modest. Programming Language One. A Programming
Language.

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A colleague of mine wrote a powerful macro processor (which I still use
and maintain). He called it Macro Language One - ML/I. He loved taking
the piss out of IBM.

 
What, no m4? :-)
 
My older projects use a lot of m4. For newer projects I'm using Meson.

Better than m4 (IMHO). And it predates m4 by a decade.

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