From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sauer@technologists.com (Charles H Sauer) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:40:04 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] RIP John Backus In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <140ead43-b6de-cb1e-1c86-181edb10ee30@technologists.com> On 3/16/2018 7:26 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote: > On 3/16/2018 8:08 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> Dunno; I taught myself FORTRAN-II after winning a book at school >> (yes, really!) > > I taught myself Fortran after stealing a book from the library a few > towns over. Returned it a few years later by dropping it in the book > deposit. Another book of note, /FORTRAN für Anfänger/ (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-96076-5), was popular among UT-Austin doctoral candidates in meeting the foreign language requirements... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: