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For 't is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 4...
Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Against Colote...
For tomorrow I diet . . .
For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 429...
FORTRAN FORTRAN is the programming Language considered by many to be the natural successor to LISP and Prolog for A.
I. research. Its advantages include: 1. it is very efficient for numerical computa...
FORTRAN programmers do it with double precision.
FORTRAN programmers do it with SOAP.
FORTRAN programmers just DO it.
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
it is now too clumsy, too risky, and to expensive to use...

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