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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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On 4 Oct 2024 22:47:30 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> ... many people using a high level abstraction like Python think
> of it as some sort of magic ...

What we have seen in this thread (and others) is many of the younger ones 
think C is that “magic” out of which all else is woven.