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Re: learning languages (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:36:47 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> FORTRAN in the same sentence as clean and efficient, without a
> negative. *shakes head* must be a misparse.
It's a relative thing. Back then, Algol 60 hadn't even been developed,
and FORTRAN hadn't been muddied up with more stuff.
(why, I remember when I had to do my programs on punched cards... once
you punch it. there's NO undo!... and I had to walk to school. Barefoot
in the snow, uphill both ways (1). Why, back then some of us coded with
just ones! Zero hadn't been invented yet.)
1 - this part about uphill both ways happens to be true for my High
School. I lived on a hilltop on one side of the valley, my school was on
a hilltop on the other side of that valley, so I had to ride *out* of
the valley, and thus uphill, both ways
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| (...) Heh heh, I think I remember hearing about someone who took a precision knife to a punched and changed a D into an E by altering the lowest order bit. IIRC, punched cards were easier to do that sort of thing to than paper tape because punched (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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