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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 25 Sep 2024 15:48:01 GMT
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
>That's a marvelous description, although it fails to really capture the
>perversity of things like array-size-as-type-distinction; when a man
>introduces language features that practically every single third-party
>implementor has to provide their own workaround for, you know you've
>found a Truly Special Genius.

  Dudes, when Knuth was on the hunt for a language to whip
  up TeX back in the day, he figured Pascal was the cream of
  the crop among his options. You got to put that language in
  perspective and see it through the lens of its time!