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From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:21:12 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] FORTRAN
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On 3/20/18, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> Having worked on system programming for UNIX and a few of the PDP-11 DEC
> OS’s (DOS, RT, RSX, and in passing RSTS), I can tell you Fortran was
> abhorrent.
>
Yes, Fortran is as awful for system programming as C is for numeric
programming that involves throwing multidimensional arrays around.
Screwdrivers always make bad hammers.

-Paul W.