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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:34:46 +0100
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On 24/09/2024 23:36, Peter Flass wrote:
> 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.
> 
Not really.
They are clearly defined entities and you could construct any routines 
to manipualate them you liked


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