Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTH (not)
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 25. Oct 2024, 23:39:58
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On 25 Oct 2024 17:16:11 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:
My first computer was a 12K (BCD charactersw) IBM 1401 running
FORTRAN IV. Better compiler writers in those days...
They were quite slow, though.
I remember one story about a (Fortran?) compiler that took 20 minutes
(including loading time) to process a program consisting of a single
semicolon.
Yes, it was a syntax error.