From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 14:20:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54dffceb-0a7f-929a-11ec-b775a98f44d4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912031852160.99521@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 12/03/19 02:55, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> As every computer programmer should know, John Backus was emitted in
> 1924; he gave us the BNF syntax, but the sod also gave us that FORTRAN
> obscenity...
A few decades ago, I applied for a job in a place that used VAX FORTRAN
and I knew only a bit FORTRAN II. Knowing several imperative languages,
I told them that I knew it, bought the book "FORTRAN Tools for VAX/VMS
and MS-DOS", and read it in a week, blown away about how far VAX FORTRAN
was from FORTRAN II. It was actually quite reasonable.
N.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 7:55 dave
2019-12-03 13:44 ` clemc
2019-12-03 15:57 ` toby
2019-12-03 16:05 ` lars
2019-12-04 5:41 ` wobblygong
2019-12-04 14:54 ` clemc
2019-12-04 15:08 ` clemc
2019-12-04 15:14 ` clemc
2019-12-05 6:11 ` wobblygong
2019-12-05 12:38 ` clemc
2019-12-05 17:03 ` tih
2019-12-05 18:44 ` clemc
2019-12-05 19:03 ` clemc
2019-12-05 19:50 ` tih
2019-12-05 20:56 ` clemc
2019-12-03 19:20 ` cym224 [this message]
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