Quote #39
From the May/June'94 IEEE Institute, an article about John Backus receiving
the Draper Prize for having developed Fortran:
"Another of Fortran's breakthroughs was the GOTO statement, which was a
uniquely simple and understandable means of structuring and modularizing
programs."
From the May/June'94 IEEE Institute, an article about John Backus receiving
the Draper Prize for having developed Fortran:
"Another of Fortran's breakthroughs was the GOTO statement, which was a
uniquely simple and understandable means of structuring and modularizing
programs."
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- 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... - Quote #36
"FORTRAN's DO statement is far scarier than GOTO ever was -
nothing can match the sheer gibbering horror of... - COME FROM n.
A semi-mythical language construct dual to the
`go to';
COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced... - FORTRAN rots the brain.
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John... - Quote #616
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the
tenth century A.D.
and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned... - How many
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does it take to change a light bulb? 1... - Soldier of
... - MFTL /M-F-T-L/
[abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language']
1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design... - FORTRAN is a good example of a language
which is easier to parse using ad hoc techniques.
D. Gries [What's good about it? Ed...
