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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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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.

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