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“Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging…” -- FORTRAN Preliminary report, 1954 http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/Backu
by mpweiher 1y ago
“Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging…” -- FORTRAN Preliminary report, 1954
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusEtAl-Preliminary%20Report-1954.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusE...
- ogogmad 1y agoYou can be wrong a lot and then suddenly be right. Look up "being a Turkey": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion
- mpweiher 1y agoI think you are missing the fact that it did, in fact, eliminate “coding”. And that’s where it starts to get interesting.
- cauliflower99 1y agoThis is brilliant.