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> FORTRAN was proposed by Backus and friends, and again was opposed by almost all programmers. First, it was said it could not be done. Second, if it could be d
by MattSayar 1y ago
> FORTRAN was proposed by Backus and friends, and again was opposed by almost all programmers. First, it was said it could not be done. Second, if it could be done, it would be too wasteful of machine time and capacity. Third, even if it did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!
- Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- marcodiego 1y agoIn some sense... I bet there are more people writing assembly than FORTRAN today.
- pklausler 1y agoThat was obviously before FORTRAN existed.
- Jtsummers 1y agoBecause, of course, Real Programmers use FORTRAN. https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html