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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:33:40 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Samani Marions Panyaught NYS-13760-4251-019-USA
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I went from DEC20 FORTRAN to pdp11 Basic (it had matrix math) to DEC SAIL
(Algol) to Pascal to C to Python

Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided


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