Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 02/10/2024 08:29, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 03:05:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On 2 Oct 2024 02:40:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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Democracy leads to mediocrity and worse.

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“Democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the
others.”
     -- Winston Churchill

 Winston Churchill was the best PM in the world aside from almost everyone
else.

I think that's unfair.
He managed to stitch together different political factions and social classes into a pretty united war machine.
That's quite a feat.
--
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered...
...than to have answers that cannot be questioned
Richard Feynman