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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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On 9/25/24 16:03, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> writes:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> VAX-11 Pascal, on the other hand, was wonderful. Enough useful
> extensions to make it a very viable systems programming language.
> 


Indeed, but a bitch to work out how to call Vax C from Vax Pascal, or 
vice versa. Life was so much harder before search engines and the internet.