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Years of bitter personal experience have taught me that FORTRAN is the real ur-language in the sense that a suitably determined programmer can write FORTRAN cod
by seanhunter 4y ago
Years of bitter personal experience have taught me that FORTRAN is the real
ur-language in the sense that a suitably determined programmer can write FORTRAN code in just about any language. I have certainly had to debug this code all over the place.
- lamontcg 4y agoDoes this make Perl a FORTRAN?
- seanhunter 4y agoI have unFORTRANned thousands of lines of perl code in my time.
- ochrist 4y agoIs this from https://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/rpdup.pdf https://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/rpdup.pdf (Real programmers don't use Pascal)?
- seanhunter 4y agoThat is where the quote originally came from yes. Thanks! I have been looking for that - couldn't remember it precisely. Here's the actual original: > Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write fortran programs in any language.