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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 25 Sep 2024 15:12:13 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:00:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:45:51 +0000, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:14:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> 
>>>> PL/I was IBM’s attempt at a Grand Unification of both “business” and
>>>> “scientific” programming in one language. If you thought C++
>>>> programming was full of surprises when your program did unexpected
>>>> things, PL/I invented the whole genre of “surprise-ridden programming
>>>> language”
>>> 
>>> IBM was always so modest. Programming Language One. A Programming
>>> Language.
>>
>> A colleague of mine wrote a powerful macro processor (which I still use
>> and maintain). He called it Macro Language One - ML/I. He loved taking
>> the piss out of IBM.
> 
> What, no m4? :-)
> 
> My older projects use a lot of m4. For newer projects I'm using Meson.

Better than m4 (IMHO). And it predates m4 by a decade.

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