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Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN-like languages Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:15:31 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <20240930111531.00003d66@gmail.com> References: <pan$96411$d204da43$cc34bb91$1fe98651@linux.rocks> <vd8o1s$178gk$5@dont-email.me> <llr46dFmeudU2@mid.individual.net> <vd9r10$1d6gq$4@dont-email.me> <vd9rub$18mq$2@gal.iecc.com> <vd9see$1d6gq$5@dont-email.me> <llruqbFqbh9U4@mid.individual.net> <vdarnl$1l4ch$5@dont-email.me> <20240930100149.000050ac@gmail.com> <vdenoq$2as01$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:15:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="32a37bac0a08e2ecfa3e3c65131391e5"; logging-data="2465208"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/heqCCPkTvQet9O45GQX1kjnKABSzNkjE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:3TFb2rmZoGM+z3WIlUN7nQ1BaHs= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 1830 On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:39:38 +0100 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: > The problem is that many of those amateurs thought they were in fact > professionals Sure - but from the dawn of history, those types have *never* required special toolsets to get in over their head. And on the flip side, far better for amateurs to be able to create non-professional solutions than for people to have no solution at all, when professional solutions are either unavailable or unaffordable...