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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:36:59 -0700
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R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:
> 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.
> 

C is just pathetic at character strings.

-- 
Pete