Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 4 Oct 2024 23:52:15 GMT, rbowman wrote:

When the Roman Empire went down the entire known world was shaken up.

No it wasn’t. Remember it split into “Eastern” and “Western”, and the
“Western” one got taken down by those illiterate barbarians who were the
ancestors of those who nowadays call themselves “Europeans”. The “Eastern”
one continued on its merry way, in some form, for about another 1000
years.

And the Chinese and Indians and the lesser cultures in their orbits, of
course, carried on, blithely unconcerned by any of this ...