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From: R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:01:31 +0200
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rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
> 
>> No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?  It was contemporaneous
>> with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL>
> 
> ALGOL's impact on succeeding languages was much greater than its actual
> use.
> 

ALGOL60 was the language where a test of equality between two floating 
point numbers was actually a test of "close enough for ALGOL".  If I 
want to test for "approximately equal" then I want a different operator.
How well did it handle character strings?  Any language which could not 
handle them was a language I wanted no part of.