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From: R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:01:45 +0200
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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:13 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
>>
>>> When I went to uni in the 70s, the computer science lecturer had a
>>> hard-on for Pascal, the latest and greatest. Always slipped in snide
>>> remarks about BASIC or COBOL in most classes.
>>
>> Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2.  I swear as soon as anybody figured
>> out how to do anything useful with one of his languages Wirth designed a
>> new, more obscure version.
>>
>> https://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter8.php
>>
>> Chapter 8 - Input/Output
>> In preparation
>>
>> That sums it up. I've heard Wirth's languages described as programs that
>> are designed to tell secrets to themselves.
> 
> Wirth: His name is pronounced "virth" if by reference, and "worth" if by value.
> 
> I found the original Pascal to be confining.
> 

Hmm, your .sig is all about pollution of the seas.