Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:43:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-02-27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

Just as nobody says “awful” to mean “awesome”.

 
To be fair ("To be fair..."  "To be fair..."  "To be fair..."  --
Letterkenny) that word's spelling was, I believe, "aweful" - at least
some of the time.

I read somewhere of a story where, I think it was King James VI/I,
complimenting an architect on his latest construction, used three
adjectives that would be construed quite differently today. The only one I
can remember was “awful”.