Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 03:53:53 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <851708060.749423067.699188.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:53:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="53e6a1f358fb9450cb41203dd8d281a9"; logging-data="113475"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18MGIzHLAJKK36y46kX/EGl" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9upFa0Q212SV6h0QsoVDeUuZYdA= Bytes: 2416 On 4 Oct 2024 03:01:26 GMT, rbowman wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 00:38:49 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:55:51 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >>> Thomas Malthus figured this out over 200 years ago. >> >> He was wrong, though. Human ingenuity (i.e. science and technology) >> kept things going long after he thought they would fall apart. > > Ah, a cornucopian! Just a realist. You know, looking at what happens in the real world, instead of inside your head.