On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, > etc. But we are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* > profs were forcing students to use it!)
In the early 80's a local computer rag ran a tongue-in-cheek dictionary of computer terms. As I recall, the applicable entry was Fortran, n. A language meant to be written and not run. Unfortunately, it is often run anyway. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon." --Mark Twain -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
