3 ms·

And it's just a misunderstanding. I think it was Perlis who said, "We don't know what the programming language of the future will look like, but we know it will

And it's just a misunderstanding. I think it was Perlis who said, "We don't know what the programming language of the future will look like, but we know it will be called FORTRAN."

gnufx 6y ago
Hoare said "I don’t know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran". He also said "ALGOL 60 is alive and well and living in Fortran 90", which is a decent compliment from him.
- madhadron 6y ago
  Ah, thank you.