Fair enough 👍
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 6:50 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Clem,
>
> At 2023-06-12T18:39:32-0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> > Apologies to TUHS - other than please don't think Fortran did not
> > impact UNIX and its peers.  We owe that community our jobs, and for
> > creating the market in that we all would build systems and eventually
> > improve.
>
> Absolutely.  Fortran (77) was the first language this weedhopper learned
> after BASIC (which, while much despised by the sorts of people who
> update jargon files, _also_ had early support in CSRC Unix).  While I
> intensely disliked the fixed-source format (a defect Fortran 90
> remedied), I acquired it more easily than C, to the relief of the guys
> on my class project team who already knew C and _hated_ Fortran.
>
> My wisecrack was not meant as a derogation of Fortran in any way, but
> rather as a sly (not really) allusion to a word also appearing in your
> expansion of the COFF list's name as seen above...
>
> Best regards to you and to Fortran, and a nod to the copy of
> Metcalf/Reid/Cohen on my bookshelf,
> Branden
>